Mr. President. I am introducing today remedial legislation to amend our immigration laws to protect the legitimate labor interests of U.S. longshoremen. Increasingly. foreign vessels offloading in U.S. ports are utilizing foreign crewmembers for domestic longshore work. Since this work by foreign crewmembers is performed exclusively on board the vesselssuch as when operating shipboard cranesthe Immigration and Naturalization Service has ruled such work is technically outside the jurisdiction of our immigration enforcement. At the same time. I know of no foreign port in which American crewmembers are permitted to conduct similar longshore work overseas. This amendment to the Immigration and Nationality Act would close this loophole and place U.S. longshoremen back on equal footing with the longshoremen of other maritime countries. Mr. President. Chairman JACK BROOKS of the House Judiciary Committee has introduced similar legislation. and I am pleased to be Joined in the Senate by the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Senator JOSEPH BIDEN. as well as Senator PAUL SIMON of our Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Affairs. By Mr. COCHRAN:
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