Speaker. my attention has just been called to an editorial cartoon that appeared in a morning Washington newspaper. a paper which I have never found the time to look at. However. if my information about the point of the cartoon is correct. I would like to call your attention to some very important facts in connection with the admission into the United States of Hungarian refugees. My own position has not been inconsistent. I have contended from the very beginning of the emergency program that the least we can expect is a decent. thorough screening of people to whom we issue immigrant visas authorizing them to remain in this country permanently. We have a right to know who is coming into the United States. I did say that I was satisfied with the screening of the second group of refugees that came under the parole provisions of the immigration code. These were the brave young students who fought tanks with their bare hands. and I felt that anybody who did that we could take a chance on. But. as to the first group. the ones which obtained immigrant visas in a hurry. I repeat what I said in the very beginning: They are opportunists who took advantage of a crack in the Iron Curtain. or Hungarians who were fleeing from the ire of their fellow countrymen. Among them were the Hungarian Communists against whose regime the revolution was succeeding.
Identified stereotypes
Generalizes about the motivations and character of different groups of Hungarian refugees, distinguishing between 'brave young students' and 'opportunists' or 'Hungarian Communists'.