Speech #810210688

For such screening. responsible agencies must. for their particular responsibility. be on the alert. so that every official in every agency will be held to the strictest accountability. If any official is unfaithful to his trust. he should be dismissed. but the humane program should go forward. After the International Refugee Organization finds that a person is a displaced person. the Displaced Persons Commission must have assurance from a responsible person or recognized voluntary agency in the United States that a job for such displaced person is available. that he will not displace another person from a job. that there is available for such displaced person safe and sanitary housing. and that he will not displace another person in the United States from housing. The displaced person for whom such responsible assurance is given must be checked by the Counterintelligence Corps of the Army. must be examined by a doctor on behalf of the United States Public Health Service. and must receive a name check by the FBI. In view of the limitations of some of these checks. the full responsibility for admission into the United States rests upon the United States consular service and the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service. The IRO determines the eligibility of a person as a displaced person. but not his admissibility into the United States. The United States consular service alone has the responsibility of deciding whether to grant a displaced person a visa for admission. After the visa is granted. the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service alone has the final responsibility of deciding whether. under the laws of the United States and the regulations governing the admission of immigrants. the displaced person should be admitted into the United States. On the basis of these provisions and as a way of meeting a desperate human need. we support the substitute bill. which combines the best features of the bill as passed by the House and the Senate committee version of the bill. as an acceptance by the United States of our fair part of the responsibility to provide homes for these victims of dictatorships. persecutions. and war. In a world in which there is so much cruelty. suffering. and despair. it is good that we have the opportunity to give positive expression to the humane impulses of the American people. Through such a definite and positive program is revealed the soul of a people in the historic tradition of America as a haven for the refugees from the persecution of bigots and the oppression of tyrants. At this time of the Communist war on religion and freedom. it will be good for the spiritual idealism of America to admit our fair share of displaced persons whose religious faith and devotion to liberty have been tried in the fires of persecution. tyranny. and war. These homeless people mainly belong to the Jewish.