Mr. President. that we will not make any sacrifice "in order to give you sanctuary. we will not receive you unless it is to our benefit that you be permitted to come"? That is all right in the service of the national interest. but if it be the basis upon which the bill Is passed. let us claim no moral or Christian credit for it. for we are only serving ourselves by the criteria which the displaced persons must meet as provided in the language of the bill. "Will be suitably employed without displacing some other person from employment and that such person. and the members of such persons family who shall accompany such person and who propose to live with such person. shall not become public charges." That is in the present immigration law. That is a condition applicable to any immigrant coming into this country. I shall not speak specifically about that except to say that I wonder what sort of a country we would have today if only the well to do if only those had been admitted who had some financial sponsor of responsible character here to receive them. to guarantee that they would not be public charges when they came. I ask the question. how many poor people. whose labor and whose brawn and whose struggles have helped to build America. could ever have gotten into the United States under such criteria of admission as those?
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