The law having to do with refugees was entirely different from the law covering the overall immigration problem. because a refugee was without a country. He was either a refugee. an escapee. or an expellee. who was no longer a citizen of any government. or who came from a government behind the Iron Curtain. Many of them were without means to obtain a regular visa. Therefore. legislation for relief of such persons was enacted. If the Senator from Connecticut wants to join with the junior Senator from Minnesota in progressively and constructively attempting to amend the WalterMcCarran Act. I shall welcome his support. What I wish him to do now is to join with the rest of us in the amendment of the Refugee Relief Act. Then I want him to admit frankly that for 2 years the administration did not make the act work. for 2 years it tried to. make us believe the act did work. and for 2 years it did not work.
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