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	The McCarran-Walter Act
		Although the Naturalization Act of 1870 granted the right of naturalization to “aliens of African nativity and to persons of African descent,” Chinese immigrants would be forced to wait until 1943 before obtaining the right to become citizens.
		McCarran would accuse the PCIN of containing communist sympathizers and stated that subverting the national origins system “would, in the course of a generation or so, tend to change the ethnic and cultural composition of this nation.”
		The Immigration Act of 1965 replaced quotas based on national origin with a uniform annual cap on immigration of 20,000 per country.
	www.ailf.org /ipc/policy_reports_2004_mccarranwalter.asp (1744 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: McCarran Internal Security Act (Site not responding. Last check: )
		¹The Internal Security Act, the Subversive Activities Control Act, or the McCarran Act of 1950 required the registration of communist organizations with the Attorney General in the United States and established the Subversive Activities Control Board to investigate persons thought to be engaged in “un-American” activities.
		Constitutionality is the status of a law, procedure, or act being in accordance with the laws or guidelines contained in a constitution.
		The Alien Registration Act or Smith Act (18 USC 2385) of 1940 made it a criminal offense for anyone to knowingly or willfully advocate, abet, advise, or teach the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing the Government of the United States or of any State by force or violence...
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/McCarran-Internal-Security-Act (671 words)

	Las Vegas SUN: Book lays McCarthyism blame on Sen. McCarran
		McCarran went so far as to conspire with a communist-turned-informant to dig up dirt on Greenspun because Greenspun was brazen enough to back a candidate to defeat McCarran's hand-picked choice in the 1952 race for Nevada's junior seat in the U.S. Senate, Ybarra notes in his book.
		McCarran, who wrote most of the the anti-communism laws and conducted many of the hearings as chairman of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee, used the full force of his power and resources to attack Greenspun, Ybarra writes.
		The act, in effect, marked immigrants as subversives, communist sympathizers and a threat to national security and attempted to thwart their entry into the United States.
	www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/text/2004/sep/28/517582175.html (1040 words)

	Mccarran internal security act (Site not responding. Last check: )
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	1950-1959 Immigration and Nationality Act (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The McCarran Internal Security Act, enacted by Congress on September 23, 1950, called for the registration of communist organizations and the monitoring of persons percieved as potential threats to US security such as immigrants.
		The act specified laws maintaining a quota system of immigrants, dealing with the entrance and deportation of aliens, and limits on immigration from certain countries and areas of the world.
		This act also permits persons of all races to immigrate to the US and to be eligible for nationalization.
	www.angelfire.com /in4/chronology/2.html (136 words)

	Angry Liberal Skewers Anti-Communist Sen. McCarran by John Gizzi - HUMAN EVENTS (Site not responding. Last check: )
		McCarran broke with FDR in the first month of his presidency over New Deal legislation the senator felt was encroaching on state's rights.
		McCarran feuded as fervently with Harry Truman, the two having developed a mutual disgust since their days as freshman senators.
		Passed by voice vote in the Senate and by a vote of 206 to 68 in the House, it formalized the quotas for immigrants from individual countries and streamlined the procedure for deporting undesirable aliens--gangsters as well as suspected subversives.
	www.humanevents.com /article.php?id=5860 (1000 words)

	ILW.COM - immigration news: The McCarran-Walter Act: A Contradictory Legacy on Race, Quotas, and Ideology (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Yet, the Act also repealed the blanket exclusion laws against the immigration and naturalization of Asians, although it established only token quotas for Asian immigration and was clearly biased towards Europeans.
		McCarran would accuse the PCIN of containing communist sympathizers and stated that subverting the national origins system “would, in the course of a generation or so, tend to change the ethnic and cultural composition of this nation.” {10}
		The provisions of the McCarran-Walter Act that lifted the bars to immigration and naturalization for Asians and Pacific Americans were sponsored by the famous “China hand,” Republican representative Dr. Walter H. Judd.
	www.ilw.com /articles/2004,0708-campi.shtm (1740 words)

	Political Counterintelligence by Athan Theoharris Chapter 5 of Spying on Americans: Political Surveillance from Hoover ...
		Having secured authorization to investigate "subversive activities" and having carefully devised procedures to preclude disclosure of questionable investigative activities, FBI officials no longer were principally concerned that politically motivated investigations could be effectively challenged.
		Then, under provisions of the McCarran Internal Security Act of 1950 and the Communist Control Act of 1954, Communist, Communist-front, and Communist-action organizations were required to register as foreign agents with the Subversive Activities Control Board and to label their publications as Communist propaganda.
		FBI investigative reports thereby served to popularize the conclusion of bureau officials that radicals were subversive, to sensitize the American public to the seriousness of the internal security threat, and concomitantly to discredit individuals and/or organizations active in radical politics.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /FBI/Political_Counterintel.html (7875 words)

	Red Scare Truth
		passed Internal Security Act that required all communist-front organizations to register with the Attorney-General, prohibited communists for working in defense industries, prohibited immigration of any member of a totalitarian organization, allowed internment of communists in case of national emergency.
		McCarran's subcommittee held hearings on "loss" of China from July '51 to June '52, using files of the Institute of Pacific Relations seized by the subcommittee from Edward Carter's barn in Lee, Massachusetts, in Feb. 1951.
		Using the McCarran-Walters Immigration Act and his Internal Security Act of 1950 to tighten immigration, he limited the number of refugees to only half a million over a two-year period -- fewer than 10,000 were Jews.
	joemcarthytruth.blogdrive.com /archive/cm-03_cy-2005_m-03_d-31_y-2005_o-0.html (2602 words)

	Reds Resource 1: McCarran Act or Internal Security Act of 1950 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		"The Internal Security Act of 1950, sometimes called the McCarran Act or the anticommunist law, is one of the most controversial and least understood laws in the history of the republic.
		As the SEP article reports, the act's passage by House and Senate was quite controversial.
		But the McCarran Act was only the tip of the inquisitorial iceberg.
	www.turnerlearning.com /cnn/coldwar/reds/reds_re1.html (349 words)

	AsianWeek.com: National News: Washington Journal (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Immigration Act of 1917 used geographic criteria to exclude Indians, because their racial and ethnic status was not clearly “white” or “fl” under prevailing laws.
		By 1950, Senator Pat McCarran, D-Nevada, was head of the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, which went so far as to investigate the administrations of Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman to determine the effects of alleged communist influence.
		Title II of this onerous act went so far as to view the Japanese American wartime incarceration as a precedent in case alleged subversives had to be rounded up.
	www.asianweek.com /2001_06_08/news11_washj_mcarranwalter.html (1004 words)

	McCarran Act
		"The Internal Security Act of 1950, somtimes called the McCarran Act or the anticommunist law, is one of the most controversial and least understood laws in the history of the republic.
		The Internal Security Act, popularly named for Nevada's Senator Pat McCarran, an aging hack who, in fact, commandeered the legislation from an earlier version by congressmen Karl Mundt and (of all people) Richard Nixon argued for the fingerprinting and registration of all "subversives" at large in the United States.
		As the SEP article reports, the act's passage by House and Senate was quite controversial.
	www.writing.upenn.edu /~afilreis/50s/mccarran-act-intro.html (345 words)

	McCarran-Walter Act
		In 1950, he sponsored a bill that became known as the McCarran Internal Security Act, which required all members of the American Communist Party, among other groups, to register with the Attorney General.
		McCarran's Senate Internal Security Subcommittee began to work closely with Hoover's FBI, conducting hearings on political subversives for the next twenty-seven years.
		The McCarran-Walter Act was not abolished until 1994, but many of its provisions were reborn in the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA), signed in 1996.
	www.skepticism.org /politics/terrorism/ter_McCarranWalter.shtml (833 words)

	The Free Expression Policy Project
		Espionage and Sedition Act prosecutions and war fever during World War I were followed by the Red Scare and the Palmer Raids of 1919 and the early 1920s.
		The decision established the "actual malice" standard for defamation claims by public officials; disapproved the 1798 Sedition Act; and announced the "profound national commitment to the principle that debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open," and may well include "vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials."15
		Quotations in this section from the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, the Espionage Act of 1917 and Sedition Act of 1918, and the Alien Registration Act of 1940 are from Stone, supra note 1, pp.
	www.fepproject.org /factsheets/politicalspeech.html (5675 words)

	FDIC: FDIC Law, Regulations, Related Acts - Miscellaneous Statutes and Regulations
		An Act to extend and revise agricultural price support and related programs, to provide for agricultural export, resource conservation, farm credit, and agricultural research and related programs, to continue food assistance to low-income persons, to ensure consumers an abundance of food and fiber at reasonable prices, and for other purposes.
		Section 1. This Act may be cited as the "Food Security Act of 1985".
		The insurance activities of any person (including a national bank exercising its power to act as agent under the eleventh undesignated paragraph of section 13 of the Federal Reserve Act) shall be functionally regulated by the States, subject to section 104.
	www.fdic.gov /regulations/laws/rules/8000-4000.html (10785 words)

	Democrats.US - Online Think Tank for Democrats - Editorial
		The act required organizations regarded to be communist to register with the Department of Justice, to identify their members, and to furnish their financial records.
		In 1917, Congress passed the Trading with the Enemy Act, which prohibited the mailing of magazines and newspapers that were characterized as offensive to the government.
		This was followed by the Espionage Act, which was created to prevent spying and sabotage, but also carried penalties of a twenty-year prison sentence and a $10,000 fine for merely criticizing the war.
	www.democrats.us /editorial/gerard061905.shtml (925 words)

	subversive - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		The son of a wealthy Filipino planter, Rizal was born in Calamba, in...
		The Immigration Act of 1917 expanded the classes of foreigners excluded from the United States.
		In September 1950, goaded by McCarthy, Congress passed, over Truman’s veto, the McCarran Internal Security Act, which established a Subversive...
	encarta.msn.com /subversive.html (135 words)

	Truman, Harry S. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Truman had instituted (1947) a loyalty program for civil servants, but the government came under increasing attack for loose security, particularly after the conviction of Alger Hiss.
		Truman dismissed the charges of internal subversion as a “red herring”; in 1950 the McCarran Internal Security Act, which provided for the registration of Communist and Communist-front organizations, was passsed over Truman’s veto.
		Thrust into office largely ignorant of foreign affairs, he acted decisively in erecting the machinery of “containment” against the threat of Communist expansion and committing the United States to a new internationalism.
	www.bartleby.com /65/tr/Truman-H.html (1248 words)

	D. Neoliberal Reaction and Political Repression
		The use of internal surveillance systems and personality profiling to detect disgruntlement and weed out those with bad attitudes toward authority, not to mention to track down those guilty of quiet and unobtrusive sabotage, became a central preoccupation with the new Chekists in Human Resources departments.
		Before 9-11, Timoney was a vocal enemy of the "international anarchist" conspiracy to disrupt globalization meetings, and advocated the use of RICO statute and harsh federal law enforcement tactics to break the anti-globalization movement.
		A common response to those fearing such capability (from the sort of "small government conservative" who is typically full of zeal for the national security state), is to challenge civil libertarians to produce "one example" of how (for example) the USA Patriot Act has been abused.
	www.mutualist.org /id90.html (2821 words)

	Book List December 2004
		Constantine Niemand, a South African security guard, comes into possession of a videotape that seems to implicate American troops in a massacre of African villagers.
		Patrick McCarran, a democratic senator from Nevada, spent his career in opposition to the party’s leadership.
		As a staunch anti-communist he sponsored the 1950 McCarran Internal Security Act, which required anyone who had been a Communist to register with the attorney general.
	www.montvillelib.org /booklist1204.htm (330 words)

	King Encyclopedia
		As a fundraiser for the American Jewish Congress (AJC), he raised funds for left-wing causes, including the defense of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and a campaign against the McCarran Internal Security Act.
		In the early 1950s, the FBI considered Levison to be a major financial coordinator for the Communist Party in the United States and began to monitor his activities.
		Unwilling to lose a trusted advisor because of vague allegations, King refused to act on the administration’s request for over a year.
	www.stanford.edu /group/King/about_king/encyclopedia/levison_stanley.htm (661 words)

	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Due to numerous hearings, delays and appeals, the act was never enforced, even with regard to the Communist Party of the United States itself, and the major provisions of the act were found to be unconstitutional in 1965 and 1967.
		Jointly drafted by Republican John Marshall Butler and Democrat Hubert Humphrey, the law was an extension of the Internal Security Act of 1950, and sought to outlaw the Communist Party by declaring that the party, as well as "Communist-Infiltrated Organizations" were "not entitled to any of the rights, privileges, and immunities attendant upon legal bodies".
		Truman also unsuccessfully vetoed the Taft-Hartley Act, which among other provisions limiting the power of labor unions and denied unions National Labor Relations Board protection unless the union's leaders signed affidavits swearing they were not and had never been Communists.
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=McCarthyism (5670 words)

	Historical Political Events for September 23
		This act called for the registration of the "communist-front" and "communist-action groups." It also called for the internment of suspected "subversives" with no trials in a "national emergency", presumably in concentration camps.
		Furthermore it called upon the President or Congress to declare a "national emergency." Of the six camps built in 1952, several were maintained on a stand-by basis in the 1950s and 1960s.
		President Eisenhower (R) signs an urban renewal bill, "HOUSING ACT OF 1959", (one of several passed during this time) with a price tag of nearly a billion dollars.
	perspicuity.net /cgi/disp_day.cgi?09&23&1999 (382 words)

	Giving Up Freedom for Security
		The government wants to be able to jail people without charge in time or peace or war, and to have the power to deny them the right of representation and the right to confront their accusers.
		American history is replete with instances in which government used national security to justify repression only to find later that the targeted population was little or no threat.
		Government excesses during the Cold War and the Korean and Vietnam wars included the Smith Alien Registration Act, loyalty oaths, the McCarran Internal Security Act and J. Edgar Hoover's FBI files on those he considered subversive, such as Martin Luther King, Jr.
	hnn.us /articles/333.html (937 words)

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