Mr. Speaker. I wish to .-oin my colleagues in condemning the heinous discrimination by the Soviet Union of educated Jews wishing to emigrate to Israel. The proposal of a kings.ransom of from $5.000 to $37.000 in addition to the considerable coststhe $1.000 fee. renunciation of citizenship. loss of jobalready extracted -by the U.S.S.R. from these maligned people. is another black chapter in the continuing persecution of the Soviet Jews. Already schools. synagogues. and cultural centers are closed to them. if prevented from returning to their homeland. they will be denied yet another basic human right. The Soviets defense for their actions is purportedly to prevent a "brain tlrain" and to compensate the Government for their education. Why then are educated Jews applying for visas summarily dismissed or demoted from their jobs? Why this reasoning when the Soviet Union has already received repayment from its graduates in the form of required Government service? Certainly. the Government knows that families cannot possibly afford these outsize fees--which. at a minimum. total at least double ones annual salarywithout help from abroad.
Keywords matched
emigrate visas