Mr. Speaker. for some time the Immigration and Naturalization Acts have been the center of controversy. Almost everyone interested in the subject has admitted that changes are desirable and necessary. For example. on May 27. 1955. the President submitted certain recommendations to the Congress which he said were vital to the administration of the acts. At that time he pointed out that "the purposes of the actthe Refugee Relief Actare not being achieved as swiftly as we had all hoped." Numerous bills have been introduced to affect changes in our laws relating to this subject both in the Senate and the House. I. myself. have introduced 2 bills which. if passed. would clarify many of the more confused sections of the law on this subject and would bring the immigration policy of the United States into line once more with the traditional attitudes of the American people on this matter. I am introducing today a companion measure to Senate Joint Resolution 84. introduced in the Senate yesterday by Senator JoHN F. KENNEDY. of Massachusetts.
Keywords matched
Naturalization Immigration Refugee immigration