Mr. Speaker. the agitation in behalf of the socalled Refugee Act. precipitated by President Eisenhowers requests for still greater leniencies. unmasks the act for what it is: a fraudulent gesture of political hypocrisy. For all its purported humanitarian aims. the act is a crudely concocted piece of oldfashioned porkbarreling on an international level. By itself and in combination with the proposals for revision it represents a clear and dangerous attempt to circumvent the carefully constructed legislation which now stands as this Nations basic policy on immigration. The people of the United States were duped when they were told of its need. The fact is that during the past 3 years. immigration pressures from the outside have continuously diminished. and the conditions upon which the displaced persons laws of 1948 and 1950 were predicated have all but disappeared. A recently released State Department report states bluntly that despite the broadest interpretations as to qualifications. there are not enough applicants to us up even the visas provided for originally in the Refugee Acta total of 209.000. There is no mass of starving. tortured humanity pounding at our doors.
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