We permit ministers and students and certain other classes to come In without limitation. Lest I be charged with being an unconscionable restrictionist. I want to say that I have sponsored and supported much liberal immigration legislatiod since being a member of the committee. I handled on the floor of the House the bill repealing the Chinese exclusion acts and I strongly supported the Judd bill which passed the House some time ago. and legislation bringing In the flanc6es and brides of our soldiers and legislation providing for the naturalization of those in the armed services. Under these bills hundreds of thousands of persons have been permitted to come in. But this legislation seeks to bring into this country people who came into our camps 18 months or 2 years after the shooting was over. They came there largely because they got 2.000 calories of food per day in the camps whereas on the outside they only got 1.500. While caring for DPs this bill wholly ignores the 14.000.000 expellees who are in our military and occupied zones of Europe simply because they allegedly have some German blood. We have turned over to the IRO almost exclusive control of our immigration policy insofar as displaced persons are concerned. and they say if you are of German ethnic origin. you cannot be classified as a displaced person. So those who were classified by the IRO are those who came into our camps and their names were put on a list and they stayed there. There Is no question in the world but what the cream. so to speak. has been skimmed off of those camps time and time and time again.
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