HEARINGS BEFORE SUBCOMMITTEE NO. 1 OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY EIGHTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON H.R. 7700 and 55 identical bills TO AMEND THE IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY ACT, AND H.R. 1629, H.R. 1654, H.R. 2103, H.R. 2896, H.R. 3566, EIGHTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY MICHAEL A. FEIGHAN, Ohio WILLIAM M. TUCK, Virginia ROBERT T. ASHMORE, South Carolina BASIL L. WHITENER, North Carolina ROBERT W. KASTENMEIER, Wisconsin WILLIAM M. McCULLOCH, Ohio PATRICK MINOR MARTIN, California BESS E. DICK, Staff Director MURRAY DRABKIN, Counsel HERBERT FUCHS, Counsel WILLIAM P. SHATTUCK, Counsel WILLIAM H. COPENHAVER, Associate Counsel SUBCOMMITTEE No. 1 GENERAL JURISDICTION OVER ASSIGNED JUDICIARY BILLS SPECIAL JURISDICTION OVER IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY MICHAEL A. FEIGHAN, Ohio, Chairman FRANK CHELF, Kentucky RICHARD H. POFF, Virginia WALTER M. BESTERMAN, Legislative Assistant II ~ Hon. W. Willard Wirtz, Secretary of Labor.. - Hon. Norbert A. Schlei, Assistant Attorney General Hon. Raymond F. Farrell, Commissioner of the Immigration and -Mr. James L. Hennessy, Immigration and Naturalization Service.... Mr. James J. Hines, Legal Adviser, Bureau of Security and Consular Mr. Allen B. Moreland, Director, Visa Office... APPENDIX Estimated admissions for first 5 years under H.R. 7700_- III TO AMEND THE IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY ACT THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1964 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, The subcommittee met, pursuant to adjournment, at 10 a.m., in room 346, Cannon Building, the Honorable Michael A. Feighan (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Messrs. Feighan, Chelf, Rodino, Poff, and Moore. Also present: Walter M. Besterman, legislative assistant and Garner J. Cline, associate counsel. Mr. FEIGHAN. The subcommittee will come to order. Today we open the second phase of our hearings on pending immigration legislation with testimony from the executive agencies of Government. We are honored to have with us as our first witness, the Secretary of State, the Honorable Dean Rusk, who, I am sure, will provide this subcommittee with important testimony on the foreign policy implications of the administration's proposal. Mr. Secretary, on behalf of the subcommittee, I extend to you a most cordial welcome. You may proceed. STATEMENT BY HON. DEAN RUSK, SECRETARY OF STATE Secretary RUSK. Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. It is a very great privilege, indeed, for me to have a chance to meet with this distinguished subcommittee to talk about a very important problem. I refer to the effect on the operation of our foreign policies of the national origins system, which is the basis of our immigration laws. The administration has proposed in H.R. 7700 and S. 1932 the progressive elimination of the national origins system from our immigration laws. I should like to discuss with you the foreign policy aspects of our immigration laws and of the administration's proposals from the point of view of the Department of State. Others will discuss internal or national aspects of the administration's proposals. Under the national origins system, the primary objective was to maintain the ethnic balance among the American population as it existed in 1920. This system preserves preferences based on race and place of birth in the admission of quota immigrants to the United States. This results in discrimination in our hospitality to different nationalities in a world situation which is quite different from that |