Then there were the pressures from abroad. When. at long last. Sukarno finished with the Dutch in Indonesia. there were thousands of refugees. thousands of whom had to go back to Holland. In Holland. they have difficulty reclaiming land from the sea and holding back the sea so that it would not impregnate their soil and destroy its fertility. It is a little country. They can take care of only so many. The Dutch Ambassador has been to see me several times. pleading. "Cant you possibly do something so that we can get 10.000 of them into this country? For us. it is a burden to sustain them." That is another problem that we deal with when we face up to immigration policies and how to do equity in every case. It is no secret that a good many people feel that southeastern Europe is the object and the victim of discrimination. When one looks at the onesided quotas. one can readily come to that conclusion. For. under these various enactments in other years. 82 percent of the entire quota from northwestern Europe. only 16 percent from southeastern Europe. and 2 percent from the rest of the world. one can easily see the foundation for the charge that there has been discrimination. Then there is the fact that we have been constantly patching our immigration laws. Over here sits a former distinguished Governor from Idaho. We were discussing the problem the other night.
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