Speech #810211254

I believe Mr. Miller referred to the responsibility and authority contemplated by the committee.bill. By my amendment I would simply give to the Immigration Service an affirmation of its authority and power to carry into effect the purposes of the law. to examine the persons in question very carefully so that no person who should not be admitted to the United States would be admitted. if it were humanly possible to ascertain that he should not be admitted. I propose to offer an amendment to the Kilgore substitute on page 13. between lines 23 and 24. as follows: SEc. -. The second sentence of section 10 of the Displaced Persons Act of 1948 Is amended to read as follows: "The burden of proof -shall be upon the person who seeks to establish his eligibility under this act. and no person shall be issued an immigration visa or be admitted into the United States under this act if the consular officer or the immigrant inspector knows or has reason to believe that the alien is subject to exclusion from the United States under any provision of the immigration laws or is not eligible under the terms of this act""Provided. That nothing in this section shall remove the right of review and appeal available to aliens under general immigration laws." In other words. that amendment would definitely. confer upon the visa officer and the immigrant inspector full and complete authority for review and veto of displaced-.persons admissions. Presumably it would be his duty to know what is in the various files of the Counter Intelligence.