Speaker. I am dismayed to learn that the administration sees fit to reject the entrance of Egyptian displaced Jews to the United States under the parole provisions of the McCarranWalter Act. Yet. this is the very provision in the law which gave the administration authority to admit 32.000 Hungarian refugees. I note that Mr. Rogers. in replying for the Attorney General. stated that the decision to admit Hungarian refugees was taken in "a sudden unexpected emergency which arose while there was no Congress in session." This answer is completely illogical. The authority to admit the Hungarian refugees was based on law and the law operates whether or not Congress is in session. It is heartless mockery to say that existing law is operable for one group of people and then inoperable for another group of people who are similarly situated. Whether or not Congress acts on the administrations proposals. is completely irrelevant. The law as it exists today. provides sufficient authority to admit the helpless deportees of Egypt. Moreover. the administration has announced that it will continue to permit the entrance of additional Hungarian parolees. No one finds fault with that. but then what happens to the excuse given by Mr. Rogers that the administration will not act on Egyptian deportees while Congress is in session. pending action on the proposed legislation affecting parolees? The Hungarian refugees are still being admitted although Congress is in session and the pending legislation has not been acted upon. There is more to this than meets the eye. What is the real basis for this discrimination?
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