Speech #870034760

Waivers of inadmissibility. including inadmissibility due to affliction with tuberculosis. are to be made part of our permanent law and will be available to relatives of U.S. citizens and permanent residents of this country. Fourth. Veterans of the Korean hostilities who became naturalized U.S. citizens will. under the bill. be accorded the same protection from expatriation as that enjoyed by naturalized veterans of World War I and World War II. Fifth. An improved procedure governing the admission of highly skilled immigrants will give the Secretaries of Defense. Agriculture. Commerce. and Health. Education. and Welfare. together with the Attorney General. the possibility to provide for the selection of the most desirable immigrants with a view toward serving the national interests in the field of defense. science. technology. public health. and cultural progress. Sixth. The increasing instances of abuse of our immigration laws have prompted me to propose to the Congress. in the same bill. several provisions designed to facilitate the expulsion of the racketeering elements. subversives. and aliens who resort to fraud in obtaining entry and permanent residence in this country. Improved procedures and precise rules of evidence in judicial action bearing on immigration. deportation and naturalization are proposed in my bill to serve to correct laxities harmful to the national interest: Full analysis of my bill follows: Sections 1. 2. and 12 Incorporate and codify into permanent law the provisions of several successive temporary enactments facilitating the immigration of alien orphans adopted by U.S. citizens. The eligibility requirements would remain virtually unchanged except that the maximum age of the adopted orphan who may enter the United States outside of the applicable immigrant quotas is set at 10 years of age instead of 14. This change follows the recommendations of the interested social welfare organizations and reflects their belief that such lowering of the age of the adopted orphan would be in the best interest of the child as well as the adopting family. The petition procedure prescribed in section 8 (a) and (b) of the bill is designed to eliminate abuses and hardships resulting from "proxy" adoptions of a child never seen by the adoptive parents. The procedure also requires compliance with the adoption requirements of the State of the childs proposed residence. Sections 3 and 16 accord veterans of the Korean hostilities the same naturalization privileges as existing law accords veterans of World War I and World War I. A bill containing these provisions was introduced by the gentleman from California and passed the House of Representatives in the 86th Congress. Section 4 provides for a comprehensive procedure to govern judicial review of orders of deportation. The procedure prescribes uniform and orderly venue which will permit the expeditious handling of judicial review of administrative orders under which expulsion of certain aliens is ordered. The necessity for strengthening the laws in respect to aliens who resort to repeated judicial reviews and appeals for the sole purpose of delaying justified expluslon from this country. has been long recognized. Obviously. whatever the ground for deportation. any alien has the right to challenge administrative findings of deportability through judicial process. However. the frequency of abuses and the increase in number of cases taken to courts for the evident purpose of delaying the expulsion warrants legislative action. particularly in view of the fact that the overwhelming majority of aliens involved in using the delaying tactics are criminals. racketeers. traffickers in narcotics. or agents of subversion. A bill containing identical provisions passed the House of Representatives in the 85th and 86th Congresses. The Judicial Conference of the United States under the chairmanship of the Chief Justice of the United States has at its September 1959 session approved the bill and at its September 1960 session the Conference decided to adhere to its approval of the bill so far as it relates to deportation orders. Section 5 is designed to facilitate and expedite the reuniting of families by creating a quota reserve consisting of unused quota numbers which would annually be utilized for the issuance of visas to immigrants within a stated degree of relationship to citizens of the United States or resident aliens. The size of the quota reserve will. of course. vary from year to year. depending on how many quota numbers remain unused at the end of each fiscal year. Generally. in the last decade the aggregate of unused quota numbers averaged 55.000 annually. In the last fiscal year. 1960. the number was 53.514. Relatives of U.S. citizens and lawfully resident aliens chargeable to Immigration quotas of less than 7.000. will be entitled to obtain immigrant visas from the quota reserve. Each quota country will be entitled to a percentage of the quota reserve equal to the percentage which such countrys regular quota bears to the total of all annual quotas under 7.000. For example. if a countrys quota represents 5 percent of that total. the immigrants from that country would have access to 5 percent of the quota reserve. Relatives who will benefit from the quota reserve include: (1) Parents and unmarried sons and daughters over 21 years of age of U.S. citizens. (2) spouses and unmarried sons and daughters. minors or adults. of lawfully resident aliens. and (3) married eons or daughters or brothers and sisters of U.S. citizens and their spouses and minor children. if accompanying them. Section 6 Is designed to meet certain changing world conditions. specifically the situation created by the increasing number of new independent countries. each of which is authorized under existing law to be allocated an annual immigration quota of 100. Inasmuch as there are now 20 independent countries. recognized by the United States. in the geographical area described by law as the "AsiaPacific Triangle." the existing 2.000 quota ceiling imposed on that area as a whole. is proposed to be removed so that In the event that an additional independent country located in that area obtains U.S. recognition. a quota of 100 annually could be proclaimed for its nationals. Similarly. anticipating the forthcoming assumption of an independent status by the West Indies Federation. this section of the bill proposes to assure to this or similar new political entities an immigration quota equal to the total of subquotas or quotas now available for each of the component parts of such a new entity. To cite an example. upon the merger of Syria and Egypt Into the United Arab Republic. the new entity was allocated only 100 quota numbers annually. while prior to the merger each of the two component parts had a 100 quota for itself. This situation will be corrected under section 6 of the bill. Section 7 proposes perfecting amendments to existing procedures under which highly skilled immigrants may obtain preferential status under the respective immigration quotas. For the purpose of establishing and maintaining a coordinated policy which will tend to serve national interests in the field of defense. science. technology. public health. and cultural progress. a fivemember Skilled Specialists Selection Board is proposed to be created. representing the Secretaries of Defense: Agriculture. Commerce. and Health.