I do not believe that after mature reflection. the great majority of the American people will permit their fears to override the tradition of generosity and welcome to regugees that has made this country the beacon of freedom for the 200 years of its life. When that beacon of freedom and welcome Is extinguished. the United States will have come close to losing its very reason for being in the first place among nations. Most of the American people have been immigrantsa great many of them have been refugees. In the course of our own adult lives. the United States has opened its doors to 450.000 displaced persons in the aftermath of World War IIto over 30.000 men and women who fought for freedom in the Hungarian Revolutionto 675.000 Cubans who refused to live under the Castro regimeand nearly 200.000 who chose to leave Eastern Europe for the United States in the early 1950s. In other words.
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