Mr. Chairman. it is estimated that we have from 31/2 million to 5 million illegal aliens in this country at this time. The Immigration authorities records show that there are some 3.500 illegal seamen who jump foreign ships in American ports each year. There are at present some 600 German quota visas unused which could be used by these same people it is sought by this bill to bring in. This to my mind would indicate that the German ethnic people and the German people by not using these 600 vacant quota numbers certainly are not too eager to come to this country. As I stated a moment ago when we were talking on the rule. the gentleman from Pennsylvania and I and 2 or 3 other members of the Subcommittee on Immigration covered some 45 or 50 expellee camps in Western Germany. in the French. British. and American zones. We talked to literally hundreds of people who were refugees. and there are some 9 million of them in the Western Zone of Germany. whose forebears. some of them. for as far back as 300 years have been Germans but had left Germany and had adopted Bulgaria. Hungary. Czechoslovakia. the Sudeten land.
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