Speech #890175799

Instead of devoting themselves to actual employment of persons needing jobs. these agencies are weighted down with forms and procedures which may never result in bringing jobs and applicants together. Nothing was the matter with the old law where by blanket negative certifications. alien workers were kept out if their entry would adversely affect working conditions in the United States. The new legislation has pyramided procedures. application forms. and the work of Government employees without accomplishing any benefits to our immigration or labor practices. Instead of improving our immigration policies. the new law has stultified and degraded them. Instead of giving us an efficient. practical. and rational process. we have incorporated into the administration of the law a dilatory. aggravating. paper pushing. and frustrating procedure. It is necessary to return the labor provisions of our immigration laws to reason. to practicality. and to efficiency. The procedure of the immigration laws prior to December 1. 1965. was far more practical and efficient than under the present law. My amendment therefore seeks to reinstate the procedure of the laws previously in force.