This morning. among other things. I wish at the very outset to bring up the question that I believe is of tremendous national urgency. but which. unfortunately. has also been very much bandied around. particularly in an election year. And being that the distinguished gentleman from California is present. and one of those who has been outspoken. and has been a leader in this area of legislation. from the time that he was elected to this body in 1962. and even before then. he was the first Californian of Mexican descent freely elected to any sizable body. being the city council of the city of Los Angeles before his election to the Congress This is the question of immigration and naturalization reform or amendments. In 1965. we had what was then called the hallmark of immigration legislation. the basic codification of the immigration laws that had been encrusted in our corpus of statutory legislation since the last century. Our country has witnessed everything from indentured servitude. which we must remind our colleagues was very much in existence not much over 100 years ago. As a matter of fact. if one examines the records in Shelby County.
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