Germans. Irish. Italians. Chinese. and scores of other groups who came here were refugees. They came to avoid conscription. to escape political. religious. or social persecution. to rebuild mortgaged lives. They came because America welcomed them. The Nation gathered strength and vitality from them. Our powerful economy and rich culture was built by them. - My own father was a refugee. He fled from eastern Poland to avoid conscription in the czarist army. And when he fled. he came to America. the bright. hopeful refuge for the dispossessed of the world. In recent years. we provided refuge for tens of thousands of Hungarians and hundreds of thousands of Cubans.
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