Mr. President. I note with the greatest interest and considerable gratification that the Senator is active and explicit in continuing to pursue the development of our immigration laws. and not accepting in any spirit of a fortiori the last law which we passed as being the end of the road. I wish to join the Senator in that respect. I have not yet had an opportunity to analyze every aspect of the Senators speech. but I shall do so because I hold him in great regard as a friend and as a colleague. The basic fact that the American people should know is that we had to make a lot of settlements in the Judiciary Committee before we got the immigration law which was passed last year. It is by no means the great body of immigration freedom that some might suppose that it was. It has great problems and difficulties. The Senator and I both fought and bled with regard to refugees and the Latin American quota. which had not been present before. In my office in New York we have many immigration cases. as I am sure both the Senator from Massachusetts and his brother have. This problem is beginning to show up. It is not as easy to reunite families as it was thought it would be when the bill was passed. Similarly. the labor certificate problem has been troublesome as well. resulting in hardship and the loss of needed skills for our country. The cause of immigration reform is very much alive. The Senator is very much enlisted in that cause as I am.
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