Speaker. I am hopeful that the introduction of this legislation by such an overwhelming majority of the membership of this House and the prodigious support that it has also received in the Senate will convince the Soviet Union that the United States will not tolerate such unfair treatment of Soviet Jews in the U.S.S.R. The respressive policies of the Soviet Union effectively restrict these helpless people from emigrating from the U.S.S.R. to Israel. If the U.S.S.R. desires to continue trade with us under its favored status it will have to abandon this harassment of citizens whose only wish is to leave and begin a new life. We in the Congress who support this measure are uniting to enunciate a principle fundamental to human liberty: that any individual has the right to emigrate. In doing so we reaffirm the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations where signatories promised to uphold the right to free emigration and return. I deplore this outrageous policy of the U.S.S.R. which now threatens EastWest relations. But I steadfastly demand that this oppressive discrimination be halted remembering the admonition of the late Dr.
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