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Pat McCarran was born August 8, 1876 in Reno, Nevada. Later on in his life he became a very dedicated democrat. He led a Senate hunt for Communits in the movie industry, labor unions, the State Department, and the UN. He thought and was very convinced that all disloyal Americans were the immigrants from Communist-ruled parts of the world. He was determined to put all communists in the U.S. on trial and had strong and very fim beliefs. He urged Congress to pass the McCarran-Walter Act in 1952. It reaffirmed the quota system for each country that had been established in 1924. The act also discriminated against possible immigrants from mainly Asia and Southern or Central Europe. Though Congress had passed the act it was vetoed by President Truman calling it "one of the most un-American acts I have ever witnessed in my public career." The bill was still passed. Pat McCarran later died September 28, 1954.

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