It is almost impossible to believe that it could have any appreciable ill effect upon our national welfare. even assumingwhich of course is not the casethat these persons were not desirable additions to our population. The change in the cutoff date is particularly important because It makes the bill a measure of relief as against victims of Soviet communism as well as relief against the victims of German nazism. That is a new element in the situation which has come in in recent years. and today many of these people who would be admitted by the bill face deportation to places behind the Iron curtain. and persecution. I have an illustration of that in connection with a group of Hungarians who are here. They were brought to my attention recently by the president of Fordham University in New York.
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