Mr. President. the bill came from the Subcommittee on Immigration and Naturalization of the Committee on the Judiciary. It authorizes an adjustment of the status of Cuban refugees to the United States. While I am a stanch advocate of restricted immigration. I think that the. passage of the pending bill is necessary in respect to the Cuban refugees. There is no prospect that they will be able to return to their own country within any foreseeable time. The pending measure merely provides that they may have their status adjusted with a view ultimately to becoming American citizens. I think it is necessary to pass the pending bill to deal with the situation confronting us which. in the words of Grover Cleveland. is "a condition and not a theory."
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