Several million Jews lived in a wide area in the middle..of Europe. where they were traditionally subject to prejudice. frequently to discrimination. and occasionally to violence. To escape their misery. many of them came to this country and to -the other countries of the New World. and many. more would have come if we and the: other new countries had been in position to let them in. But long before the crying need of these Jewish populations to emigrate had been satisfied. economic and other internal considerations compelled us. just as they compelled other countries. to tighten the immigration laws. A stream of iminigration to the United States and to other countries still continues. but this stream. at one and the same time. appears to many of us too broad. and to the unhappy Jews of the Old World not broad enough. We all know that the economic dislocation caused by the war and the difficulties of readjustment afterward will prevent any liberalization of our immigration laws. It is much more likely that they will be further tightened. Most probably th. same situation will prevail in other countries.
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