Speech #840095076

Mr. President. I ask unanimous consent to have printed In the RECORD. a statement I have prepared. with appendixes. giving a report to the United States Senate on efforts to ascertain the position of the Eisenhower administration in 1955 on fundamental immigration and naturalization policies. I have written. as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration. to the Secretary of State and the President requesting an appearance before our subcommittee by the Secretary of State himself and the Cabinet officers heading other executive departments concerned in one way or another with our immigration programs. We have still not received definite word when Mr. Dulles and other administration spokesmen will testify before us. The need for us to hear from authorized spokesmen for the administration is indicated because of the widespread confusion existing over just what the administration immigration policy is. It may be a dormant interest in the 1952 presidential campaign promises to revise the Immigration and Nationality Act. it may be concerned only with a palliative program such as the emergency legislation embodied in the Refugee Relief Act. or there may be no real interest at all. The only way the Congress can be correctly informed is to question top administration officials in open hearings. we should not be required to attempt to interpret the meaning of ambiguous language found in polite. official. and noncommittal replies to written inquiries. My statement and the appendixes present the history of our attempts to ascertain the administrations present position. The exchange of correspondence I have had to date with the administration is presented in full. plus (a) the exchange of correspondence between Senator WATKINS and President Eisenhower. containing the oftendiscussed April 6. 1953. letter on immigration. as 4. 1953. (b) the letter from President Eisenhower to Vice President Nixon regarding emergency refugee legislation. (c) a compilation of news conference and other statements made by President Eisenhower. other than communications to the Congress. (d) a recent Gallup poll regarding national interest in the immigration law. (e) a compilation of Eisenhower presidential campaign statements on immigration made in 1952. and (f) a compilation of statements on immigration made by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles.