Speech #810183839

If the cutoff date is advanced we will have established a principle which will be used to open our gates to the turbulent populations of the world. That this is the object of special interest groups cannot successfully be denied. One such group during the course of the last 3 years already has registered with the Clerk of the House of Representatives lobbying expenditures of approximately $1.000.000. and senators may be assured that the campaign to circumvent. nullify or repeal our immigration laws will be continued. Mr. President. If we depart from the principle of special consideration for persons displaced by the horrors of World War II. by embracing persons who have left their homeland because of economic or political reasons more than 4 years after the end of World War II. how can we deny special consideration to persons who have been displaced gs a result of other wars throughout the world? No one can deny the compelling humanitarian reasons which will be advanced to obtain special consideration for millions of unfortunate displaced victims of the war in China. or approximately 10.000.000 Pakistanian displaced persons in the partition of India. or approximately 1.000.000 Palestinian displaced persons in the Palestine war. No one can deny that the principle which would be established by changing the cutoff date from December 22. 1945. to January 1. 1949. will be used to obtain special consideration for the turbulent populations of the world to immigrate to the United States as displaced persons. * What is more. Mr. President. the chief officer of the Immigration and Naturalization Service in Europe. officials of the Displaced Persons Commission. consular officers. and officials engaged in CIC investigations have testified and emphasized that advancing the socalled cutoff date to January 1. 1949. will necessarily increase the security risk to the United States. These officials have pointed out that countless thousands of Communist agents and other subversives have infiltrated into Germany. Austria. and Italy since Decerber 1945 as displaced persons.