Speech #890119600

recommended that meaningful labor controls be incorporated into any reform immigration legislation and the new controls provided for in this bill have the strong support of organized labor. Eighth. The bill repeals the socalled fair share refugee act and returns the parole provision of the law to its original Intent. The original intent of section 212 of the law was to cover individual cases only and then only in emergent circumstances. An example of the original intent of the parole provision was the Andrea Doria ship disaster off our shores. when the surviving victims had neither passports nor identity documents required for admission to the United States. We had to give them haven. but of a temporary nature. until they could resume their journey to Europe. It was never intended to cover immigrant groups as such. certainly not refugees. and it was intended that people thus paroled into the United States would depart to their normal residence or domicile outside the United States when the purpose of their temporary admission had been satisfied. In returning the parole provision of the law to its original intent we have established a 6percent preference class for refugees. amounting to 10.200 per year. and have remuved from the refugees the stigma of parole to which there has been objection because of its usual connotation. In doing so we have provided for their conditional entry. a method which assures that all the present security measures will continue in full force and effect. Ninth.