Mr. Speaker. from time to time there appear in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD highly misleading statements and statistics designed to sustain the claim that our immigration laws and our immigration policy discriminates against immigrants from Central and Southern Europe as well as from countries behind the Iron Curtain. It appears highly appropriate to invite the attention of my colleagues to a set of statistics published by a reliable and impartial organization. the International Catholic Migration Commission. having its headquarters at Geneva. Switzerland. The studies made by the ICMC indicate that since the end of World War II. the United States has received a total of 1.820.278 immigrants from Europe. and only 23 percent of that number were natives of Northern Europe. the allegedly "preferred" area. The balance of our intake of immigrants from Europe came from central. southern. and Eastern Europe. Under unanimous consent. I include the figures published by the ICMC: Immigration from Europe to the United States from 1946 until 1958 Percent Total of the total Northern Europe: United Kingdom ------------ 282.360 15 Ireland --------------------- 75.957 4 Norway -------------------- 29.974 1 Sweden -------------------- 22.362 1 Denmark ------------------ 16.085 1 Finland -------------------- 8.163 1 Subtotal ----------------- 434.901 23 Central Europe: Germany ------------------ 377. 378 20 France --------------------- 52. 279 3 Netherlands ---------------- 51.421 3 Austria -------------------- 36. 668 2 Switzerland ---------------- 19. 513 1 Belgium ------------------- 19.142 1 Subtotal -----------------1 56. 401 30 Iron Curtain countries: Poland ---.----------------- 209.312 12
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