Chairman. I want to join with the gentleman in opposition to this amendment and say that the fear which has been expressed by the proponents of the amendment seems to me to have been more than adequately addressed by the Judiciary Committee. Present law now has a limitation for the orderly flow of immigration. and by not disturbing that we fulfill our commitments under Helsinki. If we adopt the amendment pending. we throw our commitments in disarray under Helsinki. and it makes a tremendous problem for us as we go to the conference in Madrid in 1980 on this question. and it turns back the clock on our own policy. The committee has also addressed the policy of refugees in this particular bill and. therefore. they have dealt with our policy concerning refugees and immigration. That is what this bill is all about. By placing a limitation on orderly flow. they have also added the protection that if there is some emergency. the President must come back to the Congress and explain it.
Keywords matched
immigration refugees