For the 60.000 aliens who shall benefit by this bill. it is a long stride to America. freedom and reunion with their families. The authors of this legislation deserve commendation and praise for the passage of this bill. and while. in my opinion. it does too little. it is not too late. This bill is humanitarian in purpose. compromising in spirit. and recognizes inequities in our present immigration law. which cry out for revision. The wails of anguish of separated families have reached our ears. and we have heard. The groans of refugees from communistic oppression have been faintly heard in the din of hysterical outbursts and propaganda. In this bill. we have provided for the use of leftover visas from the Refugee Relief Act. which expired in December of 1956. These can be distributed. not only among some of the classes of aliens listed in that law. but also among the aliens who have fled from oppression in Hungary or Egypt. The most humanitarian and noble provision deals with the admission of orphans.
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