This provision should provide much needed workers for employers presently unable to find ranch hands. agricultural workers. and so forth. Additionally. this provision will be particularly helpful to natives of Mexico who are interested in short run economic opportunities in the United States. The bill also modifies the definition of refugees admissible to the United States to conform it to the definition in the United Nations Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees. to which the United States acceded in 1968. The refugee conditional entry provisions are made applicable to the Western Hemisphere so that a uniform refugee system will be applied for the entire world. More significantly. provisions have been placed in this bill to insure that the State Department and Attorney General will not abuse the parole sections of the Immigration Act by admitting large groups of refugees as parolees after the refugee quota has been exhausted. In the past large numbers of Hungarian. Cuban. and Czechoslovakian refugees have been paroled in by the executive branch. In this bill such group or class utilization of the parole provisions of the law can be done only after advance consultation with the Congress. These. then. are the important provisions of H.R. 981. a bill greatly needed to bring order and uniformity to our immigration system. Mr. Chairman.
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