Mr. President. let me add a note of the obvious. No such resolutions as these would be necessary if the general provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act contained fairer and more humane standards for the granting of asylum to or for staying the deportation of political refugees and escapees. Hearings on proposed revisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act have started this week. addressed principally to the discriminatory national origins quota and other related problems. These hearings. in my judgment. should not be permitted to overshadow or preempt consideration of other areas of the law in pressing need of reform. While there must be a rational order of priorities followed. it is my intention before long to advance new proposals dealing with the vital problem of fairer discretionary relief from deportation of persons claiming a right of political asylum in this country.
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