In 1982 as my colleagues will recall. that was a year of a pinnacle triumph of Reaganomics and Ronald Reagans retrenchment philosophy. and there was absolutely no sympathy. nor even knowledge much less concern about anything south of the border even though by then it was obvious that even south of Mexico we were having real crises of the first magnitude. it was not realized that sooner or later they would impinge on the United States first and foremost as I think now it is generally accepted has happened. So that in reintroducing this bill I would like to discuss the basic thrust of it and the whys and wherefores of it. One must remember that in 1967 and 1968 there was no immigration crisis because President Johnson with great ado at the foot of the Statue of Liberty signed the 1965. what he called epochmaking codification of our immigration and naturalization laws and said that for the first time we in the United States are abolishing national and racial origins as a basis for immigration. However. he had reference to the orientals. In that same bill. which I voted against incidentally and was the only one to rise in the middle of the socalled debate to raise pointed questions that were not answered. because for the first time in our history we placed quotas in the same bill that my great friend and Texas leader. President Johnson. was touting as the greatest breakthrough in immigration and naturalization law reform. We placed for the first time in history in that bill quotas on our Western. Northern. and Southern Hemisphere neighbors.
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