I refer now to the musicians. artists. writers. composers. playwrights. and teachers whose very names indicate the tremendously rich and diverse ethnic origins from which they have sprung. It is these people and people like them whom this bill proposes to treat so shabbily. Students of immigration say these people have the sharpest appreciation of the value of democracy and the dangers of communism and nazism of any of the groups in our midst. To a greater degree than many nativeborn Americans. the immigrant understands the importance and value of freedom. He has lived long enough elsewhere to appreciate that freedom is not taken as a matter of course. Typically. our refugee immigrants have been individuals who wanted to improve themselves in a land of freedom. When the forces of restriction and oppression proved too strong for them in their native lands they turned to the United States of America. The process of immigration is itself a process of selection. But more than this. Mr.
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