National origins provision of immigration law

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Identifikator:: 1796380105

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-196168

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: National origins provision of immigration law

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: Gov. Pr. Off.

Year of publication:: 1929

Scope:: III, 171 S

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Statement of hon. Wilbur J. Carr, assistant secretary, Department of State

Collection:: Economics Books

Z NATIONAL ORIGINS PROVISION OF IMMIGRATION LAW Assistant Secretary Carr. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, I do not believe the Department of State has any views on that question. What I mean by that is that we understand that the experts who have been engaged upon preparing the quotas under the so-called national-origins provision prepared one tentative report, which was finally transmitted to Congress. Last year they prepared another report, which we regard as a final report—that 1s, final up to that date—which was also trans- mitted to the Senate pursuant to a resolution of the Senate. Now, they are at work on another report to bring their results ap to date on the basis of whatever new data they have discovered meanwhile, for the information of the President and the Congress. if it desires that information. I feel, and I think it is the feeling of the department, that the board of experts have obtained about all the information that they are able to obtain and have done about all the work they are capable of doing to perfect these quotas as far as they can under existing aw. I do not think we have any feeling as to whether you should post- pone the taking effect of this law or not; we think that is rather a matter for Congress, in its wisdom, to determine. The Cmamman. In your opinion, is there sufficient information before the Congress at the present time to put the law into effect ; I mean with accuracy and definiteness in the mode we like to have in respect of the administration of the law? Assistant Secretary Carr. I have not gone into that matter, Sena- tor, the matter of sufficiency of the information, because we regard that as rather a scientific question for the determination of these scientists who are at work on the quotas. Doctor Hill, of the Depart- ment of Commerce, has been chairman of the committee that has worked on that matter, and I think all of us are prepared to say that we have absolute confidence in him and his colleagues, and are pre- pared to take their statement as to the accuracy of their conclusions and the sufficiency of the information upon which those conclusions have been reached. The three Secretaries—the Secretaries of State, Commerce, and Labor—have in the past felt that they did not want to put them- selves in the position of saying that ‘the formula which Congress laid down for the determination of these quotas was a good formula or a bad one. TI think they want to remain noncommital on that question. But I do not think any of them undertakes to controvert or disapprove the processes which this board of experts has employed. Senator Nye. Do they undertake to joss upon the efficiency of the basis which has been finally arrived at? Assistant Secretary Carr. I think they have all of them felt un- convinced that the formula in the law was a workable formula. I do not pretend to pass upon that at all myself; I do not know, frankly. I think I would have entire confidence in whatever Doctor Hill, Mr. Boggs, and those gentlemen have to say about that—con- fidence in their integrity and confidence in their scientific knowledge, Senator Rep. You do feel they have about exhausted all research that is possible for them? Assistant Secretary Carr. I have not talked to Doctor Hill, but I have talked to Mr. Boggs, of our own department. and I feal that

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