Mr. President. I believe that other provisions of this bill. such as the one requiring both the consular officers and the immigration inspectors. as well as the Coordinator. who is to be set up under the pending bill. to pass upon the adequacy of the assurances given in behalf of each immigrant admitted. are so cnerous and impossible of reasonable enforcement that great difficulties will be encountered and many individuals who should be admitted under this program will be denied admission. There are other provisions In this bill which are violently discriminatory. The preference provision is as bad. in my judgment. as the analogous provision in the Displaced Persons Act of 1948and worse in some respects. The preference section of the Displaced Persons Act of 1948 became. as the Senate will remember. a national issue in the presidential campaign of 1948. The preference clause of the pending bill surely will discriminate against many of the escapees from behind the Iron Curtain. And the May 8. 1945. dateline will also bar many refugees and escapees who fled from the Red terror in Poland in 1944. and from Yugoslavia. Rumania. and the Baltic countries. before May 8. 1945. Yes.
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