Mr. Speaker. as a former member of the Subcommittee on Immigration and Nationality. I was privileged to participate in a 2year course of committee hearings devoted to population changes and other demographic phenomena in every geographic area of the world. I was particularly impressed with the dramatic population growth currently in progress and forecast for the foreseeable future in the Western Hemisphere and particularly in the nations of Central and South America. Popultion pressures constitute the principal justification for an amendment to H.R. 2580 which will be offered by the gentleman from Minnesota placing a numerical ceiling on immigration from the Western Hemisphere. Accordingly. I have extracted from our subcommittee hearings a number of tables and other data bearing on the subject which I submit herewith for the RECORD in order that they may be available for study before the MacGregor amendment is offered.
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