The population of South Vietnam is approximately 15 million. Evidently we are willing to commit the full strength of this Nations resources to the defense of liberty in Vietnam. At the same time. our immigration law makes it abundantly clear that while we may risk war for the right of the Vietnamese people to live freely and independently. we do not want them to live with us. During the Kennedy administration. we intervened in Laos to save that country from Communist subversion. President Eisenhower sent marines into Lebanon for the same purpose. Yet both these countries are assigned the same token quota of 100. As an instrument of foreign policy. our immigration law clearly is at odds with our International commitments. India is frequently described as the bastion of democracy in Asia. the major country which would be lost to the West if Red Chinas aggression is not contained. The country. with a population of more than 442 million. is the largest Englishspeaking nation on earth.
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