Mr. Speaker. I only want to take a minute or two of the little time that is left before adjournment in order to put my colleagues on notice that in the other body an at.tempt is being made to increase at this time the number of immigrants that this country admits annually under regular immigration quotas. This attempt is being made while only a few hours have gone by since the Senate passed S. 2663. a bill designed to provide assistance in certain economically depressed areas. In that bill. it is stated that this country suffers from substantial and persistent unemployment or underemployment. One of the States most painfully affected by unemployment is the State of Pennsylvania. The coal regions present an appalling picture of mines caving in. unattended buildings collapsing. homes being ruined by lack of money to keep them in good repairand above allof miners living on a gradually diminishing pittance provided by public and union welfare funds. Within the current decade. immigration to the United States has by far outnumbered the quotas established by the Congress. This country has admitted since the end of the war well over half a million refugees and displaced persons. in addition to immigrants reaching us from all corners of the world both under the quota and outside of the quota. Our nonquota admission of immigrants exceeds twice the number of immigrants entering under the quota. The liberal provisions of the law admitting outside of the quota all natives of independent countries of the Western Hemisphere. and all wives and children of United States citizens. regardless of their place of birth. has made our entire immigration quota simply a basis from which we operate. Immigration from Mexico was in the past fiscal year 5 times higher than only 4 years ago and it is rising rapidly in the current fiscal year. * There is now before the Senate a bill. H. R. 6888. which passed the House last year.
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