Speech #850095376

Mr. President. I introduce. for appropriate reference. a bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952. Like other bills already pending before the Judiciary Committee. this bill does not attempt to revise the law in its entirety. In drafting it. I have merely selected those provisions which are most clearly in need of amendment. and on which. I hope. a majority of the Senate can agree. This bill is similar to other short immigration bills sponsored by me in the 83d and 84th Congresses. with certain revisions reflecting our recent unhappy experiences in connection with the termination of the Refugee Relief Act and in meeting the Hungarian and EgyptianJewish refugee crises. I am mindful of the fact that on June 27 I joined with our distinguished colleague. the junior Senator from Massachusetts . in introducing S. 2410. I again wish to commend the Senator from Massachusetts for the initiative and care with which he approached the drafting of that minimal emergency legislation. I endorse its provisions wholeheartedly. In considering whether I should reintroduce my own short immigration bill. with revisions. I have been aware of the fact that sections of it overlap. even if they do not duplicate. sections of S. 2410. In other aspects. todays bill goes beyond S. 2410 to supplement it with provisions which. it seems to me. should also be before the Judiciary Committee on an emergency basis for their consideration. Examples are my provisions clarifying the Presidents future discretionary parole authority in emergency refugee situations. and establishing an appeals procedure for visa applicants. Mr. President. the bill which I send to the desk would accomplish the following purposes: First. Section 1 restores to professors eligibility for nonquota status. which they enjoyed prior to the enactment of the McCarran Act. if a university requests their services. This proposed change is based on a feeling of confidence that our universities will select only wellqualified persons for employment on their teaching staffs. It therefore abolishes the unnecessary redtape and delay Involved in requiring universities to obtain clearance orders from the local employment service and then proving to the Immigration Service that the professor whose immigration is being sponsored is needed urgently in the United States. My amendment in no way changes the security requirements of our laws. as they concern all who wish to enter the United States. Second. Section 2 would grant to certain adopted children the immigration status enjoyed by natural children. This change would have two important effects: (a) It would make it unnecessary for adopted children of American citizens. in many instances of servicemen. to wait their turn on the quota or. as happens so often. to require that Congress pass a special bill on their behalf. (b) it would make adopted children of aliens eligible for the same quota status or quota preference as that enjoyed by natural children. thus avoiding the heaFtbreaking situations in which adopted children force their family to delay their trip to the United States or have to be left behind. Since section 2 applies only to children adopted prior to their reaching the age of 14 years. and since it specifically excepts children adopted solely for the purpose of obtaining immigration preference for them. the danger of abuse is avoided. Third. For more than 5 years I have been the sponsor of legislative proposals to ameliorate the harsh effects of the nationalorigins principle through quota pooling. I was. therefore. very greatly pleased when the President. in 1956. endorsed quota pooling in his special message on immigration and when the senior Senator from Utah introduced a bill to put quota pooling into effect. Quota pooling means simply that quota numbers made available to any given country. but not used by it. may be allocated to a country which needs them. My own quota pooling proposal differed in some detail from that proposed by the administration.