Mr. President. for a number of years I have listened to discussions and have read letters about the conduct of the Immigration and Naturalization Service in refusing to grant asylum to refugees from Communist Poland and Communist Yugoslavia. In the Detroit Free Press of a few days ago there was published an article written by Mr. Robert S. Boyd. which begins with this statement: Leading PolishAmericans are complaining bitterly about a U.S. policy which they say is driving antiCommunist Polish refugees back to communism. They say the Immigration and Naturalization Service is refusing to grant asylum to recent refugees in order not to offend the Communist government of Poland. I know that a study was made by an American. now deceased. sent to Austria by the Judiciary Committee of the Senate to ascertain conditions with respect to Yugoslav refugees. There has been adopted a sort of inflexible judgment that refugees from Poland and Yugoslavia are fugitives from economic distress. There has been an unwillingness to accept the true fact that there are Poles and Yugoslavs who cannot endure the oppression of a Communist government. Those Yugoslavs and Poles are fleeing. and our Government. in order not to offend the Gomulka and Tito governments. declares that these people are fugitives from economic instability. rather than political oppression.
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