Speech #810190139

I believe I may say. the letter of the law itself. Mr. President. my colleagues have stated many instances of false and fraudulent documents and perjury employed by displaced persons in order to qualify for immigration to the United States. It is regrettable that a single displaced person should be admitted into this country who has attempted to qualify through perjury and the submission of false documents. It is regrettable that thousands of those already admitted may have committed perjury and may have misstated facts regarding their qualifications in order to be selected ahead of others who are honest. If there is no hesitancy in practicing fraud and deceit before they arrive. how will they behave after they get here? I am not in favor of bringing that type of alien to this country. and I favor deporting every person who has been admitted under false pretenses. Mr. President. one of the Important changes made by the bill reported by the majority of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary is a change of the definition of "displaced persons." The Displaced Persons Act of 1948 defines displaced persons as "those who were the concern of the International Refugee Organization." which was set up as a branch of the United Nations to care for European refugees and displaced persons. The IRO definition specifically excludes many millions of displaced persons who were driven from their homes in the small eastern European countries surrounding Germany by the Russian armies and by the Communist governments in control of those countries at the end of the war. Somewhere between twelve and twenty million men. women. and children were brutally uprooted without notice and forced to flee for their lives. for no other reasons than that German blood flowed in their veins and they spoke the German language.