Speech #720122005

Mr. Chairman. as the Chair will notice from the report. where there are comparative prints of what the changes are in existing law. the Chair will notice that this bill. as reported from the committee. refers to only one generic class of immigrants. namely. the fathers and mothers of citizens of the United States over 60 years of age. The first section refers to those mothers and fathers in the nonquota class. The second section under consideration refers to those fathers and mothers under the quota class. Now. the pending amendment goes much further and seeks to change existing law in other particulars. I notice one where it seeks to change existing law in other than that particular. and that is as to the application of the 50 per cent rule to those immigrants who come to our shores to follow agricultural pursuits. There is no restriction. no purpose to change existing law. so far as the other classes are concerned under the 50 per cent quota in this section. This new bill. so far as it undertakes to amend it. merely extends the quota exemption as far as the 50 per cent applies to the fathers and mothers over 60 years of age.