Speaker. I wish to include in the RECORD a recent editorial in the El DiarioLa Prensa. a leading Spanishlanguage newspaper in my State of New York. which emphasizes the need for legislation I have authored. I refer to my bills in behalf of Cuban refugees and certain nonimmigrants who are natives of the Western Hemisphere now in the United States and seeking to adjuA their status to permanent residence. The first of my two bills. H.R. 12596. will abolish the requirement that Latin Americans currently in the United States leave this country to apply for permanent status if their applications to adjust were filed prior to December 1. 1965. the date the new immigration act became effective. This bill will benefit thousands in this category who were in the process of adjusting their status when we passed the new act. I was pleased when my Judiciary Committee took prompt and favorable action and. then. when the House passed my bill on August 1. 1966House Report No. 1771.
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