We will give him that status today in any event. But this is very serious business. It will drive us not only to the consideration of limits of immigration. but I think it will drive us very seriously to look at the findings and the recommendations of the Brandt Commission. For example. if people are starving and living in abject poverty in other parts of the world and they see the United States. as indeed they do see the United States. as an island of opportunity and prosperity. where food and jobs are available in abundance. then just as lightning seeks the lightning rod. they are going to want to come here. Of course. the Brandt Commission looks at ways in which life can be improved in other parts of the world so as to decrease the motivation of untold millions to come to the United States of America because of the abundant opportunities for a better life that can be found here. That is one aspect of the problem at which we must look. I think the Senators proposal also drives us to look at what we are doing to our own food sources in the United States. I know many Americans who would like to see no immigrants. who say that that day is over. But if the Senators own levels of immigration were adopted and we have our normal process of reproduction in this country. then. on the present disastrous course of agricultural policy on which we have embarked. this country will be in a food deficit posture by the end of this century. We are destroying 3 million acres of farmland. 3 million acres of American agricultural lands. per year. If we do that for the next 20 years. we will destroy 60 million acres of American farms. while adding millions of mouths to be fed.
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