CELLERJ by implication admitted that there might be an avalanche if we did not have some kind of restrictions. which he feels in part. at least. are presently in the bill. I might add that I cannot agree with the specious argument that we should not act now because we have not acted in the past 40 years. If we used that logic. we should have had no immigration bill from the Judiciary Committee. As a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. I am naturally sensitive to the possible implications. of what we do. on our friends overseas. I see no convulsions overseas if we act now and act in a reasonable way. I believe the best thing we can do with respect to this question of unlimited immigration from the Western Hemisphere is to grasp the nettIe now. I would guess that we have done more damage by our recent actions in the Dominican Republic. though I myself am not criticizing them. than by applying reasonable restrictions on our friends in the Western Hemisphere. and this amendment. I must repeat. still is more generous to them than we are to the rest of the world.
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