Sen. Herbert H. Lehman welcomed President Truman’s appointment of a special commission on immigration and naturalization as “a logical move in the Administration’s continuing fight to wipe out the intolerable discriminations against our naturalized citizens, and to assure justice and fair treatment for our alien residents and future immigrants.”
He expressed confidence “that the commission will take full cognizance of the impact which discriminatory and restrictive immigration policies have on our country’s foreign policy, on our civil liberties, labor market, and cultural foundations.” The Senator added that people must be “made aware of the dangers to our civil liberties and to the status of millions of our citizens and would-be citizens presented by the laws now on the statute books.”
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