Our second guaranty will establish a fund amounting to approximately $2.500.000 in the coming year with which to pay the costs of transportation for expellees from Germany or Austria to the United States. This provision. too. Is comparable to that contained under the DP program whereby the International Refugee Organization is currently paying transportation costs for DPs. Our amendment. in addition. makes several other refinements which we feel will aid in making the expellee quota effective. We are waiving. in the instance of expellees. the costs of head taxes and visas. and are providing that the administration of the expellee quota be transferred to the Displaced Persons Commission because it is our feeling that the question of the German ethnic exiles presents a problem much more closely associated with the duties of the Commission than it is with the conventional operation of our immigration program. Certainly the expellees share with DPs the common problem of being people driven from their homelands and forced to make their way as best they can in an alien land. In connection with the studies made in drafting our amendment we have made certain that we are not opening up a loophole through which may pour Nazis.
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