On the recordJuly 22, 1963
The use of a national origins system is without basis in either logic or reason.
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presidency.ucsb.eduJohn Fitzgerald Kennedy: “The use of a national origins system is without basis in either logic or reason.”
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Letter to the President of the Senate and to the Speaker of the House on Revision of the Immigration Laws.
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