Speech #710126997

Why. It is so preposterous. The trouble with our whole immigration policy has been that some of our good friends are so busy with other important matters of the Nation that they do not discuss these things at the proper time. Bills are brought out in the last days of the Congress under suspension of the rules. The bills are steam rolled and sometimes we vote for some inhumane measures that. had we known about them. we would not have voted for them. We voted some time ago to put in the quota class under preference the father and mother of an American citizen. Now. you must bear in mind. my dear colleagues. that if your father and mother were born in England you might bring them in here within 30 days or 6 months. but if they happened to be born in Syria it would take 110 years before you could bring your father and mother in under your present immigration law. How many knew about that. and how many would have voted for it if they had known about it? Under your present lawand I challenge any Member of this House to give an answer to this question-