The Senator Is making the point that because of the census basis being 1920 for immigration purposes there is discrimination against immigration by southern and southeastern European stock to the United States. I think that is documented by statistical evidence which the Senator has placed in the RECORD. Is it not correct to say that some countries. such as Bulgaria. Hungary. Roumania. and Czechoslovakia. are behind the iron curtain? Is it not also correct to say that the real libertyloving people and the most passionately libertyloving people have gotten out of those countries. have moved across the borders and are known as expellees or refugees. and are now seeking entrance into the haven of freedom which is the United States as well as other countries? By reason of the fact that we are utilizing the 1920 base and the fact that we have the preference clause system in the use of the immigration quotas. is it not true that we are literally locking the door upon those who would seek entrance and who are so devoted to freedom that they have taken their very lives into their hands in order to seek freedom? Yet we immeasurably block the gates to their entrance into the United States.
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