The McCarran Omnibus Immigration Bill, which is similar to the Walter Bill passed recently by the House of Representatives, will be brought to the Senate floor tomorrow. This is sooner than was expected. The measure has been vigorously opposed as “racist” by Jewish and major liberal organizations.
Sen. Pat McCarran, author of the bill and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, refused to call hearings on a liberalized version of the bill introduced by Senators Herbert H. Lehman and Hubert H. Humphrey. Supporters of the Lehman-Humphrey measure today indicated that they will organize a fight against the McCarran-Walter Bill which would set up a system of selective immigration within the national origins quota system, and deprive immigrants already admitted of fundamental judicial protections.
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