Canada has received 53.785. and then we come next in the list with 34.569 out of an authorized 205.000 under present law. To those who argue that we are letting down the floodgates. if you please. I point out the fact that under existing law and under the amendment we are now considering the quotas for all of the countries affected have been mortgaged. so that while it is true that if this amendment be adopted we will take into the United States 339.000 people as of July 1. 1951. nevertheless. at the end of 10 years the sum total will not exceed the number that could come in under present immigration laws. So we are doing two things at this time: We are. first. assisting in the readjustment of a critical situation in Europe. and. second. we are relieving the American taxpayers of the burden that they have assumed through the support given to the International Refugee Organization. I. therefore. argue. Mr.
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