Speech #910019037

Mr. Speaker. the nation that is being most severely and adversely affected by current immigration laws is Irelanda land whose sons have done so much to build this country and to make it prosper. and a land with which the United States has had the warmest ties. Irish immigration has been choked to a mere fraction of what it was in 1965 and before. Since 1965. immigration from Ireland has fallen from an average of over 7.000 per year to almost nothing. Last April. I warned the House that immigration from Ireland threatened to drop below 400 per year after 1968. Some felt that prediction was exaggerated and alarmist. But now. as my distinguished colleague. the gentleman from New York