Speech #810186889

Mr. President. the Senator from Maryland has asked me to state the differences between the two bills. The next great difference is as follows: After an application for admission to the United States clears the Displaced Persons Commission. to which it goes first. it then goes to the Immigration Service and to the consular service. The consular service and the Immigration Service have the right to veto each other in the case of the applications of ordinary immigrants. if either one of them thinks the .applicant does not meet the test. either one of them can veto the other. However. in the case of applications for admission to the United States as displaced persons. the consular service and the Immigration Service are bound by the findings of the Displaced Persons Commission and of the IRO. Mr. LHeureux. who is in charge of the Visa DivisionI understand that the Senator from New York denies that Mr. LHeureux did it. I do not knowcame before the committee several times and said that he could veto the Immigration Commission and the Immigration Commission could veto him or his organization. He said that in many cases when a displaced person who is an applicant for admission into the United States appears before one of our consuls. although the consul knows that the applicants documents are forged. and knows that the applicant was not in Germany on the cutoff date stated in the law. nevertheless. the consul is helpless. He may send the file back to the Displaced Persons Commission. but the findings of the Displaced Persons Commission are final. Under the bill we gave the consul the exact authority he has relative to the Immigration Service. namely. that he can veto such an application if he does not think the applicant meets the test. Third. in the case of agricultural preferences. there is a difference between the two bills. The fourth difference between the two billsand I think this one is the subject of the controversyit is as follows: Under the KilgoreLehmanFerguson substitute. if a displaced person was persecuted in Germany. and therefore went to another country and settled there. although not permanently. that person could return to Germany. and then could come into the United States as a displaced person.