The House today passed the McCarran-Walter omnibus immigration bill in the form reported out by a Senate-House conference. The vote was 203 to 53.
A move by Rep. Jacob K. Javits to send the bill back to committee was shouted down. Chairman Francis E. Walter of the House Immigration Subcommittee said the bill would “benefit the law-abiding immigrant of the future” but “not the subversive, the criminal, the gambler, or stowaway.” The bill now goes to the Senate for final approval before being sent to the White House.
Supporters of the McCarran-Walter bill today predicted that President Truman would sign the legislation despite the objections of a number of Democratic Senators who yesterday called at the White House to seek a Presidential veto. The bill has been described by liberal groups as “racist” and “reminiscent of Nazi legislation.”
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