Mr. President. the enactment of the immigration bill now before the Senate will be a great landmark in the development of the American dream of the freedom and equality of all men. No provision of any national law is more distasteful to millions of Americans than the concept of judging the worth of men and women for immigration on the basis of their place of birth or the nationality of their parents. I am proud to be a cosponsor in the Senate of the administration immigration bill. This historic legislation should be termed the "Celler immigration bill" in honor of the chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives. EMANUEL CELLER. who more than any other Member of the Congress is responsible for the fact that this legislative proposal is now before the U.S. Senate for debate and vote and will be enacted into law in the near future. Chairman CELLER deserves the gratitude of all Americans for his outstanding leadership in successfully guiding this important legislative proposal through his committee in the face of powerful opposition from those who sought to delay. to undermine and to render ineffective and Useless the effort to build a proper immigration policy. It is a fact that mischiefmakers did to some small degree change the original administration proposal but they failed in their devious purpose to destroy the spirit and intent of this bill. Of course. today those very same obstructionists claim credit for this beneficent legislation.
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