In the meantime and effective immediately. our subcommittee has expressed our concern on the potential deluge from elsewhere in this hemisphere. by the special provisions in the present bill under consideration. First. we have prohibited an adjustment of status by Western Hemisphere natives who may have succeeded in entering the United States temporarily under section 245. Second. we have required every immigrant from .the Western Hemisphere to be cleared by the Secretary of Labor before he may receive an immigrant visa. Third. we have required that the President notify the Congress should immigration from this area increase at any time by as little as 10 percent over the past years. Should these new provisions not prove effective in keeping a reasonable limit on the Western Hemisphere between now and July 1. 1968. I will be the first to join in making that the date. which I confidently believe is inevitable.
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