The claim is made and is continued to be made that many of these people have Communistic tendencies and therefore we should not let down the barriers for them. but to negate that position. these people are so carefully screened by the various agencies and departments of Government that the probability and possibility of such person entering our shores is extremely remote. To show you how carefully this screening is donein my own office we have the case of an American citizen who went abroad and married. He then petitioned for admission of his wife and a visa was refused her because when she was a youngster she was apprehended for stealing wood and though this offense took place when she was a child. with no criminal proceedings held against her the fact still remains that she has been labeled an undesirable because of an offense involving moral turpitude. With that type of screening and vigilance on the part of our State Department. it is obvious that the claim that we will be burdened with undesirables does not. in my opinion. hold water. The purpose of this" particular act. however. is not to let down the barriers and destroy the standards established by the present immigration law. but in fact to give relief to people who have been strangled by oppression and to give relief to those In overpopulated sections of the world where an opportunity for well being and existence is a difficult undertaking. Today Italy is a democratic nation of free enterprise. holding back the tide of communism. We recognize that country as a democratic country. our friend and our ally. as was indicated only yesterday by the passage of a bill in this House giving to Italy two of our Americanbuilt submarines.
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