President Eisenhower’s request to Congress for the admission of 240,000 additional immigrants over and above the regular quotas for a period of two years cannot be met without revising the McCarran-Walter Immigration Law, Sen. Herbert H. Lehman declared this week-end.
Welcoming the President’s suggestion, in a speech on the floor of the Senate, Sen. Lehman said it was “obviously impossible” to admit the immigrants under the terms of the present immigration law. Sen. Lehman is one of a group of Senators spearheading the attempt to rewrite the McCarran Act.
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