We are now going to take these people. which I have an idea is more or less on an indiscriminate basis. based on the challenge of other nations to take threefourth of the total. They are being admitted on a permanent basis. They become eligible for permanent citizenship. and it is a circumvention of our immigration laws. The most I can see coming out of this legislation is the hope that the administrations liberalizing bill now in the Committee on the Judiciary may get no further than it is at the present time. It is difficult to understand why there are those who want to chip away and widen the breaches in the present WalterMcCarran Act. At a time when. in my opinion. we should be tightening immigration laws. we are loosening them up. The gentleman from Pennsylvania . chairman of the Subcommittee on Immigration. in response to my query a few minutes ago indicated he was not for liberalizing our immigration laws as proposed and requested by the President of the United States. He further indicated that he recognized the inconsistency of admitting more people to the United States who will contribute to that group for which there is always a hue and cry for more welfare benefits of one sort and another. Do you want to bring more people into this country for more public housing. more unemployment compensation and all the welfare benefits which can be dreamed up by those who would take care of everybody and everything from Washington? Mr. Speaker. it seems the most I can do at this time is to give notice that I shall oppose with every possible effort any further legislation which weakens and liberalizes our present immigration laws. I simply do not think it is in the best interest of our country. and further believe that it is already one of the principal taproots of many of the difficulties our Nation is now experiencing. I know very well that there are those who will say this is a narrow view.
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