Speech #840204442

The amendment is drawn in conformity with the language presently existing in other statutory provisions providing for the temporary admission to the United States of certain workers. The proposed amendment would permit the temporary admission as agricultural workers those persons trained in all phases of animal husbandry. Their admission will be temporary for 3 years. at the end of which they may apply and the Attorney General may grant change of status from nonimmigrant to that of a permanent immigrant after making the proper charge against the quota of the area to which the alien is chargeable. During the 3year period. should the alien prove to be untrained or should the alien change his employment from that for which he gained admission. he shall be subject to deportation under provisions of existing law. It is my intention in proposing this amendment to assist the sheep and cattlemen of the Nation in obtaining qualified herders. However. at the same time I seek to prevent the circumvention of the law by many who enter this country for the specific purpose of practicing the sheepherding trade only long enough to locate other employment. Amendment No. 2 consists of 5 sections. each of which amends the Refugee Relief Act of 1953. This amendment comprises the administrations program on extension of the refugeerelief program and reallocation of the unused quota numbers. It is apparent to me that H. R. 6888 is the only immigration and refugee legislation which Congress will have an opportunity to consider. and. therefore. I intend to propose the administrations program on refugees as an amendment to the sheepherder bill. Earlier I announced that I would not seek to tack amendments to this sheepherder bill if we were to have an immigration bill to consider. Since none has been forthcoming. it is imperative that the Senate be given an opportunity to consider these amendments as part of the only piece of general immigration legislation to be presented to the Senate during this Congress. As I have pointed out above. this amendment No. 2 would provide for a reallocation of the unused Quota numbers. It further provides for an increase of 5.000 visa numbers for orphans. as well as a raising of the age limitation from 10 to 14 years and extending the time for issuance of such visas until The amendment further provides an extension of the Refugee Relief Act by providing that no visa shall b.. issued unless the assurances on his behalf have been filed with the administrator on or before December 31. 1956. and the visa will not be issued after December 31. 1957. This machinery will provide for emptying the pipeline of those who have qualified for admission under the act. Amendment No. 3167 conforms to S. 3167 as introduced by me February 8. 1956. in response to President Eisenhowers statement calling for amendments in the Immigration and Nationality Act of This bill is designed to relieve Congress of the burden occasioned by the undue increase in private legislation for the relief of individual aliens. Amendment No. 3168 conforms to S. 3168. with the exception that section 7. which deals with the relief granted to persons who entered the United States under the Displaced Persons Act of 1948 but who are deportable because they obtained their visas by misrepresenting their name. place of birth. and so forth. These persons who obtained their visas by this fraud and who did so because of fear of persecution are entitled to relief. However. a section providing this relief is presently included in H. R. 6888 as reported by the Senate committee. and. therefore. that portion of S. 3168 is deleted from this amendment as I proposed it.