I think we have learned from the Pentagon papers that when the Government is. the only source of news the people are not told the truth. . The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights sets forth very clearly that every person has a basic individual freedom to leave any country. including his ownand to return to that country. Members of the House have rightly been outraged that the Soviet Union has denied that right of emigration to Soviet Jews. How can we be outraged at the performance of another nation and consistently say that we can delegate this power to the President. without any safeguards or without any procedural due process? I suggest to you Members of the.House that if any American citizen does in fact go to some other country freely utilizing his right. and there commits some act contrary to American law. he can be punished by the Department of Justiceand should be.
Keywords matched
emigration