Mr. President. now that the Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy is winding up its final report. the Congress will soon be able to tackle the longstanding problem of bringing U.S. immigration under control. This is a serious national problem which must be addressed immediately because of the detrimental impact it is having and will continue to have on our society and economy. A few elected officials have been trying for many years to focus our attention on the implications of uncontrolled immigration to the United States and the world population pressures which have contributed to this problem. One of these is the distingusihed Congressman from New York (JAMES H. SCHiEUER). Congressman SCHEUER is especially qualified to speak on this subject because of the expertise he acquired as chairman of the House Select Committee on Population. In a recent article in the Washington Star. Congressman SCHEUER took a very thoughtful look at the immigration pressures which face the United States today and found them to be "ominous." The Congressman rightly concludes that: Our resources are. after all. finite. Right now. there are millions of people abroad who want to resettle in the United Stateshundreds of millions if we open the floodgates. We simply cannot take them allwhile. at the same time. we try to remedy the bleak conditions of our own poor.
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Immigrants are a drain on resources and cannot all be accommodated.