Speech #890013749

Let me express the hope that the legal problem. first. may be kept very simple. We proceed. gentlemen of the committee. and Mr. Chairman. from the provision in section 101 of the Immigration Act of 1953 and the language we are talking about is simply this: There is provision in that act for the admission into the United States of what are Identified as nonimmigrant aliens. The key language is that in section 101(a) (15) (h). It is provided that there shall be admitted into this country in effect those coming temporarily. and now I quote from the statute of 1953: "those coming temporarily to the United States to perform temporary services or labor if unemployed persons capable of performing such service or labor cannot be found in this country." This Is the whole of the legal basis on which we proceed. and the entire discussion. then. must be in terms of whether the work to which we are referring is work with respect to which it cannot be said that there are unemployed persons capable -of performing such services or labor to be found in this country.