Mr. President. my mother was an immigrant to this country. My father was the son of immigrants. They came here seeking opportunity and they found it. For all of 200 years of this Nations history the United States of America has stood as a beacon of hope to people throughout the world. As I understand the amendment offered by the Senator from Kentucky. it is not designed to extinguish that beacon. It merely realizes that in the real world in which we live we simply cannot continue a policy cf immigration without taking into account the effect of that immigration upon the people of this country. The amendment imposes a realistic limit for the remainder of this fiscal year and will uermit a reevaluation of the difficulties which the current situation imposes upon this country. We simply must begin to take serious account of the effect of large numbers of immigrants upon the people of this country. Continuation of the present policy ononpolicy will have devast9.tinq effects upon the people of this country and may indeed lead to a reaction far more severe than that being suggested by this amendment. Accordingly.
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