Speech #830110765

I concur with the gentlemans concern over what has happened to many of the Mexican families in southern California and elsewhere. I want to say to the gentleman. as one member of the Subcommittee on Immigration of the Committee on the Judiciary I have made inquiries in that regard to the Immigration Service and the Department of State. and it is my hope that we can do something soon to rectify what apparently is a very harsh administration of the law. I do not believe the problem is so much with the McCarranWalter Immigration Act as it is with the way it is presently being administered. In my opinion. the Commissoner of Immigration and the other individuals charged with the administration of the law are not administering it properly in many of the instances the gentleman is pointing out. I commend the gentleman on bringing it to the attention of the House.