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Speech at the Law Day Exercises of the University of Georgia Law School, Athens, Georgia

May 6, 1961

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Athens, GA

It is my conviction that there are few areas in our law which more urgently demand reform than our present unfair system of choosing the immigrants we will allow to enter the United States. It is a source of embarrassment to us around the world. It is a source of loss to the economic and creative strength of our nation as a whole.