my distinguished colleagues. I welcome. indeed. the opportunity to talk on our immigration policy generally and my bill. H.R. 7700. specifically. As you know. H.R. 7700 embodies a proposal submitted to the Congress in a special message by the late President Kennedy and formally supported by President Johnson. The present law perpetuates the principle of national origins. an antiquated immigration system proven beyond peradventure of a doubt to be unworkable. It was devised in 1921more than 40 years ago. in an atmosphere of fear bordering on hysteriaa direct result of the unsettled domestic and foreign conditions following World War I. H.R. 7700 erases it.
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