Speech #810154684

Most of them cannot get money to come in. They cannot get the transportation. They cannot get the head tax. and all the other taxes Involved. In the case of others. the IRO pays those expenses under the present operation. The bill would provide a revolving fund from which the head tax and the fixed charges would be paid. It would also permit the German ethnic group to be brought in.. For a long time they have constituted a very strong background in our industrial and farm picture. The bill would enable us to bring in that very high type of people. people who were driven from their homes. not by the shooting war but by the cold war and the dispossession of anyone whose greatgreatgrandfather happened to be German. or who had any German blood in the family chain within 100 years. Something has been said about fraud. I should like to make a comparison for the benefit of the Senate as to the difference between normal immigration and the displacedpersons program as it now exists and as it would exist under the proposed amendment. In the first place. a person seeking Immigration within the quota limits applies for immigration. satisfies the immigration authority or the consul where he seeks a visa that he has enough money to get. over here. and that he will not become a public charge. Then he is interviewed byan Immigration inspector. That ends the "show" if he comes within the quota. Under the system as laid down now. he is first screened by the IRO. which is a United Nations agency. It is said that that agency is the one which picks up the undesirables. but let us see what else happens. After IRO screens them they are screened by the CIC. the counterintelligence branch of the armed services. Then they are checked by a joint group from the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the State Department. Then they are cleared by the Displaced Persons Commission. So there will be about four times as many checks and counterbalances -on anyone who seeks to enter the United States under this proposed legislation as we have had under the quota system or as we would have in the future under normal circumstances. So the question of fraud becomes a negligible factor. A great deal has been said about the Infiltration of Communists.