U.S. Cong HEARINGS BEFORE SUBCOMMITTEE ON IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION OF THE House COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES EIGHTIETH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON H. R. 5004 CARD DIVISION A BILL TO PROVIDE THE PRIVILEGE OF BECOMING 75614 APRIL 19 AND 21, 1948 Serial No. 18 Printed for the use of the Committee on the Judiciary UNITED STATES WASHINGTON: 1948 Hon. Joseph C. Grew, former United States Ambassador to Japan__ Department of State report on H. R. 5004. Statement by Hon. George P. Miller, Representative in Congress Hon. Walter H. Judd, Representative in Congress from Minnesota__ Hon. Watson B. Miller, Commissioner, Immigration and Naturaliza- Additional and supporting documents introduced: Letter by Mr. John J. McCloy, President, International Bank for PROVIDING FOR EQUALITY UNDER NATURALIZATION AND IMMIGRATION LAWS MONDAY, APRIL 19, 1948 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SUBCOMMITTEE ON IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION, Washington, D. C. The subcommittee met at 10 a. m., Hon. Frank Fellows presiding. Mr. FELLOWs. The committee will come to order. We have met this morning to consider H. R. 5004, a bill to provide the privilege of becoming a naturalized citizen of the United States to all immigrants having a legal right to permanent residence, to make immigration quotas available to Asiatic and Pacific peoples, and for other purposes. (The bill referred to is as follows:) [H. R. 5004, 80th Cong., 2d sess.] A BILL To provide the privilege of becoming a naturalized citizen of the United States to all immigrants having a legal right to permanent residence, to make immigration quotas available to Asiatic and Pacific peoples, and for other purposes Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, NO DENIAL OR ABRIDGEMENT OF NATURALIZATION BECAUSE OF RACE, SEX, OR SECTION 1. That section 302 of the Nationality Act of 1940, as amended (60 "SEC. 302. The privilege of becoming a naturalized citizen of the United States shall not be denied or abridged because of race or sex, or because such person is married." REPEAL OF RACIAL RESTRICTIONS UPON NATURALIZATION SEC. 2. Section 303 of the Nationality Act of 1940, as amended (60 Stat. 416; 8 U. S. C., Supp. 703), is hereby repealed. ENUMERATION OF PREFERENCES WITHIN QUOTAS; TIME FOR GIVING OF PREFERENCE; SEC. 3. Section 6 of the Immigration Act of 1924 (43 Stat. 155-156; 47 Stat. 656; 45 Stat. 1009; 8 U. S. C. 206) is hereby amended by adding, at the end thereof, the following: "(c) Within the preference and nonpreference classes provided within an annual quota, a priority up to 75 per centum of the quota of any quota area to which aliens immigrating to the United States are chargeable under subdivision (b) of section 12 of this Act, as hereby amended, shall be given to persons born and resident therein." SEC. 4. Section 11 of the Immigration Act of 1924 (43 Stat. 159-160; 8 U. S. C. 211 (a)-211 (g)), is hereby amended to read as follows: 1 ན།i *** |