Mr. Speaker. I believe the time has come to analyze our immigration problem in depth. No such analytic study has been made since the economic. political. and social conditions of the entire world have undergone most profound changes since the late 1940s. This 10th anniversary of the enactment of our basic immigration code appears to me to be a good occasion to announce that a series of studies. hearings and inquiries designed to guide the Congress in the consideration of any revision of our immigration policy are being commenced by the Subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary of which I am the chairman. Proceeding under the authority granted pursuant to House Resolution 56. agreed to by the House on February 9. 1961. our subcommittee proposes to undertake this project without relating it directly to any pending legislation and with the following purposes in mind: First. To ascertain from competent witnesses and experts the population situation in the United States. Second. To examine all aspects of the problem. including the current and prospective growth of our present population and the capacity of the United States to absorb immigrants in large numbers. Third. To ascertain the relationship between the growth of our population. the problems of automation. unemployment and partial employment. and shift of population from rural to urban areas.
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