President. I should like to use my minute to make an affirmative statement to enter a protest against the expiration of the alien orphans adoption law. which will expire June 30. Neither the Immigration Subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary in the Senate nor the subcommittee in the other body has acted on this matter. Indeed. the Immigration Subcommittee in the other body has advised the Attorney General that it does not intend to act and that it believes he has the right to admit the alien orphans under the parole procedure. The difficulty is that if an American family wishes to adopt an alien orphan and does not happen to be a family serving abroad in Government service or in the Army. it is not permitted to do so under the parole procedure. This has been a great program: 2.934 orphans were admitted in 195859. 1.954 in 195960. and 2.299 in 196061.
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