Speech #850131077

Mr. President. before the Senate concludes its consideration of S. 2792 I should like to point out for the information of my colleagues and for the information of the general public why. as the sponsor of the administrations immigration bill. I am supporting this measure which falls short of the Presidents recommendation. Before explaining my personal position. I think for the legislative history of this particular bill it would be well to have in the RECORD what provisions of this bill are included as recommendations of the President. wherein the Presidents recommendations are being denied. and wherein things not recommended by the President are being proposed. First let me state that the administrations proposal. as embodied in S. 1006 introduced February 1. 1957. contained four general amendmentsto the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952. First was a revision of the national origins quota. the major portion of which was the updating of the census date from 1920 to 1950 which would have permitted the immigration of approximately 64.000 additional immigrants each year. Secondly. the bill contained provisions for relieving Congress of much of the burden necessitated by private bill legislation by authorizing the Attorney General to adjust the status of certain recognized hardship cases which are now the subject of the majority of our private bill legislation. Thirdly. the bill provided through approximately 20 amendments for perfecting of the administrative technicalities which now make the operation of the act less effective than it should be and could be. were those amendments adopted. A fourth provision of the administrations proposal provided for a uniform method of judicial review of exclusion and deportation proceedings. If adopted this procedure would materially reduce the confusion and abuses presently existing under the act. The President also included in his recommendation to Congress specific request that legislation be enacted to clarify existing parole authority so that status of Hungarian refugees now in this country might be regularized so that these refugees might finally become citizens. and that authority be provided to accept refugees from other areas in the event future antiCommunist revolts develop elsewhere in the world. Mr. President.