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MEMORANDUM OF OBJECTIONS TO CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF S. 2550 Introduction It is the purpose of this memorandum to set forth, in summary form, a few of the salient objections to certain provi- sions of S. 2550 as it passed the Senate. For the most part, no comment will be made respecting those provisions of the bill which re-enact existing law, nor those which improve existing law, such as Section 311, which removes all racial bars to naturalization. The bill, since it represents a total revision of our immigration and nationality laws, comprising one whole title of the U. S. Code, is voluminous and complex. It is therefore im- possible in a memorandum of this scope to discuss all the new provisions or to assess their effect. In particular there are many changes made in existing procedures, which will be of pro- found importance in practice, but which it will be impossible to deal with here. Although the bill now pending in conference committee is technically H.R. 5678 (Walter), it is in substance, as amended by the Senate, S. 2550 (McCarran). For that reason, the McCarran bill forms the basis of the discussion to follow. With some ex- ceptions, the discussion proceeds in the same order as the major sections of the bill. 1. Organizational Provisions (Sections 103, 104 and 105 of Title I and Sec. 283 of Title II) Sections 104 and 105 violate recommendations of the Hoover Commission that "each department head should receive from HARYS TRUMAN NARA