Speech #840119976

Among those. this bill would permit the Attorney General and the Secretary of State to waive the requirement of fingerprinting for nonimmigrant aliens. Transit through the United States of aliens from one foreign country to another would be facilitated. with proper safeguards permitted to be established by the Attorney General. Changes would be made in respect to the procedure for exclusion hearings and for the institution of deportation proceedings. The Attorney General would be vested with authority to relieve from deportation certain worthy refugees in this country who. to avoid forcible repatriation behind the Iron Curtain. misrepresented their identities and nationalities when applying for visas under the Displaced Persons Act. A discriminatory provision in the law relating to the immigration of Asian spouses under the quota of an accompanying nonAsian spouse would be deleted. Special naturalization benefits would be provided for soldiers and veterans of our Armed Forces. extension of reentry permits would be authorized for close relatives of our soldiers abroad. Expeditious naturalization would be provided for adopted children of soldiers and other American citizens required to go abroad in the performance of their duties. Certain illegitimate and adopted children would be granted an immigration status under the law. an additional measuse to prevent the separation of families. The requirement would be eliminated that an alien specify his race and ethnic classification in his visa application. and two technical and unnecessary grounds for exclusion from the United States would be eliminated. Deportation provisions relating to narcoticlaw violators would be strengthened by this bill to remove any possible doubt as to their deportability. and provisions relating to exclusion of aliens convicted of minor offenses would be clarified. An important change would be made in the distribution of the quota by giving the fourth preference category a known percentage. that is 10 percent. of the total quota instead of the unknown number called for by the present law. It is intended that these proposals. so briefly summarized. and the others contained in this bill should benefit the country as a whole.