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IV

SELECT COMMISSION ON WESTERN HEMISPHERE IMMIGRATION

Presidential Appointees:

Richard M. Scammon, Chairman, Vice President of the Governmental Affairs Institute, and former director of the Bureau of the Census;

Leo Cherne, Executive Director of the Research Institute of America, and Chairman of the Executive Committee of Freedom House, New York City;

Covey T. Oliver, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, and former U.S. Ambassador to Colombia;*

Stanley Ruttenberg, Assistant Secretary and Manpower Administrator, U.S. Department of Labor;

Raymond F. Farrell, Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, U.S. Department of Justice.

Senate Appointees:

Senator Everett M. Dirksen, Illinois;

Senator James O. Eastland, Mississippi;
Senator Philip A. Hart, Michigan;

Senator Roman L. Hruska, Nebraska; and
Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Massachusetts.

House Appointees:

Staff:

Congressman Emanuel Celler, New York;
Congressman Michael A. Feighan, Ohio;
Congressman William A. McCulloch, Ohio;

Congressman Arch A. Moore, Jr., West Virginia; and
Congressman Peter W. Rodino, Jr., New Jersey.

Donald G. Herzberg, Staff Director

Thomas G. McHale, Deputy Staff Director

Frances D. Hull, Administrative Officer

Margie W. Barnes, Assistant Administrative Officer

Linda P. Sutherland, Research Assistant

Earlene G. Owens, Secretary

Liaison Officials:

Tobia Bressler, Supervisory Statistician, Population Division, Bureau of the
Census, U.S. Department of Commerce;

Robert E. Cartwright, Consultant, Bureau of Inter-American Affairs (ARA),
U.S. Department of State;

*Replaced Lincoln Gordon who resigned on June 15, 1967.

Helen Eckerson, Chief, Statistics Branch, Immigration and Naturalization Service, U.S. Department of Justice;

Robert Lindsey, Supervisory Immigrant Inspector (Adjudications Officer), Immigration and Naturalization Service, U.S. Department of Justice;

Bradley C. Reardon, Assistant to the Acting Assistant to the Administrator for Equal Opportunity, Bureau of Employment Security, U.S. Department of Labor;

Lawrence W. Rogers, Assistant to the Administrator, Bureau of Employment Security, U.S. Department of Labor;

Edward B. Rosenthal, Foreign Service Officer, Bureau of Inter-American Affairs, Bureau for Latin America (ARA/LA), U.S. Department of State; and Henry Sheldon, Supervisory Statistician, Population Division, Bureau of the Census, U.S. Department of Commerce.

ESTABLISHMENT OF THE

SELECT COMMISSION ON WESTERN HEMISPHERE IMMIGRATION

Section 21 of Public Law 89-236 of October 3, 1965 (79 Stat. 920), reads as follows:

(a) There is hereby established a Select Commission on Western Hemisphere Immigration (hereinafter referred to as the "Commission") to be composed of fifteen members. The President shall appoint the Chairman of the Commission and four other members thereof. The President of the Senate, with the approval of the majority and minority leaders of the Senate, shall appoint five members from the membership of the Senate. The Speaker of the House of Representatives, with the approval of the majority and minority leaders of the House, shall appoint five members from the membership of the House. Not more than three members appointed by the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, respectively, shall be members of the same political party. A vacancy in the membership of the Commission shall be filled in the same manner as the original designation and appointment. (b) The Commission shall study the following matters:

(1) Prevailing and projected demographic, technological, and economic trends, particularly as they pertain to Western Hemisphere nations;

(2) Present and projected unemployment in the United States, by occupations, industries, geographic areas and other factors, in relation to immigration from the Western Hemisphere;

(3) The interrelationships between immigration, present and future, and existing and contemplated national and international programs and projects of Western Hemisphere nations, including programs and projects for economic and social development;

(4) The operation of the immigration laws of the United States as they pertain to Western Hemisphere nations, including the adjustment of status for Cuban refugees, with emphasis on the adequacy of such laws from the standpoint of fairness and from the standpoint of the impact of such laws on employment and working conditions within the United States;

(5) The implications of the foregoing with respect to the security and international relations of Western Hemisphere nations; and

(6) Any other matters which the Commission believes to be germane

to the purposes for which it was established.

(c) On or before July 1, 1967, the Commission shall make a first report to the President and the Congress and on or before January 15, 1968, the Commission shall

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