A bill; designed to eliminate the “most serious inequities” from the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act, in line with President Eisenhower’s recommendations, was introduced in the Senate yesterday by Sens. Irvin M. Ives of New York, Leverett Saltonstall of Mass., and Clifford P. Case of New Jersey.
Sen. Ives said his measure would substitute the 1950 census figures for those of 1920 in the computation of national immigration quotas, would withdraw the unrestricted authority of United States consuls abroad to grant or deny visas with virtually no standards for guidance, and would insure that all unused quotas would be re-distributed from year to year.
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