H.R. 10808. If any doubts about the need for the bill or its propriety remained. they were certainly erased once and for all in the excellent set of hearings held by the committee on August 13. 11. and 17. The effect of the bill. quite simply. would be to permit natives or citizens of Cuba who were inspected and admitted or paroled into the United States. subsequent to January 1. 1959. to apply for adjustment of status to permanent resident status and to have the status adjusted in the discretion of the Attorney General if they are otherwise eligible to receive an immigrant visa and be admissible into the United States. It may be well to make clear at once that this bill is not designednor is it likelyto adversely affect the employment opportunities of American citizens who are currently unemployed. or who have difficulty finding work. This was stated explicitly in the hearings by both the Attorney General and the Commissioner of Welfare.
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