Sen. Herbert H. Lehman this week-end called upon President Eisenhower to adopt as part of the Administration’s program the measure sponsored by Sen. Lehman and seven other Senators and 24 Representatives to amend and liberalize the McCarran Immigration Act.
In a latter tent in behalf of the bill’s sponsors. Sen. Lehman said that they plan to include some revisions in the measure next Fall and that if the President were to support the legislation, “we would be able to include with these changes other modifications which might be agreed upon as a result of consultations with you and your a advisors.”
Sen. Lehman also pointed out to the President that the bill was introduced in Congress late in the last session because the sponsors were waiting for the Presidents emergency immigration legislation to clear and not cause any collision between the two proposals. In addition, he said that the sponsors hoped to provide the bill with bipartisan sponsorship and that many Republican legislators had waited for the President’s views on immigration before agreeing to join in sponsorship of the bill to liberalize and replace the McCarran Act.
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