The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these. the homeless. tempesttost to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" While immigration was curtailed in the twenties and put on a national quota basis. the golden door was still ajar. Time and time again refugees came to the United States over and above that allowed by the Immigration law. The Hungarian revolution gave us thousands of new citizens. Later. Cuban refugees and Chinese fleeing to Hong Kong were admitted as permanent residents. Recently the national origin system was scrapped CXIII-----25---Part 5 and the immigration laws liberalized. While not perfect. this country still held out hope for refugees. The door has apparently now been closed. Joseph Stalin was one of the worlds bloodiest tyrants.
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