Speech #830001777

Mr. Speaker. I have just completed an examination of the report filed by the Presidents Commission on Immigration and Naturalization. I have read the report with disgust. It is not worth the time and money expended on it. When the Commission was created. last September. in the midst cf a political campaign. it was quite obvious to me that the true aim of this move was an attempt to gain the vote of the socalled foreignlanguage groups by wooing some of the narrowminded leaders of the socalled nationalities and the professionals in that field. Reading the Commissions report fully confirms my misgivings regarding its true task. The Commission started out by corralling certain professional social workers who have helped in bringing to the United States over 400.000 displaced persons and who are understandably eagei to continue their jobs. imperiled by the termination of the emergency immigration program. In the Commissions own words: The New York sessions set the tone of the hearing 0 * * the very first person to appear before the Commission was the director of field operations for the refugee service * * * with headquarters in Geneva. Switzerland. * * * In addition. members of the state displacedpersons commissions or committees and their staffs * * 0 (who) had been engaged over a period of years. in assisting in the reception. resettlement. and supervision of the nearly 400.000 persons brought to the United States under the displacedpersons program *4 * (made) the most eloquent pleas to the Commission for recommendations for changes in the law. Having thus conclusively demonstrated that there exist groups of professional immigranthandlers for whose benefit a largescale immigration program should be authorized. the Presidents Commission proceeded to criticize the new Immigration and Nationality Act not so much for what it contains but for what it does not embrace. namely. a reenactment of displaced persons legislation. Using clairvoyance rather than intelligence. the Commission evaluated the effect of the act. held hearings. and filed their final report before the 1952 law became effective. But by that they were not disturbed.