I desire to have the RECORD show. as I said in Oregon last week. that I have received fine cooperation from the chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary. the distinguished senior Senator from Mississippi . with respect to the two bills. Even though they were introduced on January 13. 1961. and no action has been taken on them. the fault does not rest on the shoulders of the chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary. so far as what has happened to the bills to date is concerned. The chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary has been waiting for reports from the Immigration Service with respect to the bills. For some reason. the reports have not been forthcoming. However. some time ago I respectfully asked the chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary to give consideration to proceeding with the bills without any reports from the Immigration Service. If reports were not forthcoming. The chairman. quite properly. asked for a little more time. but assured me that if the reports did not come to the committee in a reasonable period of time. he would proceed with the bills. I think the time has now come when we have a right to ask the Committee on the Judiciary to proceed to give us a report on the two bills. because they are bills which. although they involve highly delicate subject matters. also involve a responsibility on the part of the Congress to correct what I think is a gross injustice of which the Immigration Service has been guilty. The case of William Albert Mackie. as I a long time ago reported to the Senate. involves a man whose parents came from Finland and became naturalized citizens of the United States. Many years ago the parents vent back to Finland for a visit. They took some small children with them.
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