Serbs. Hungarians. et ceteraat the end of the Second World War. when their lands too had been overrun by Communists and Soviet puppet governments installed and another 200.000 Eastern Europeans in the early 1950s. that ve a.ssimilated about 40.000 Hungaians after the revolt of 1956. and. that w wvcomed over 700.000 Cubans in the 1960s. Why. might it be .sked. must we provide relocation assistanceU.S. taxsupported aidto these particular refugees? Remembering that we did this for almost all immigrant groups since the Second World War. it is because this was no gradual migration. These refugees did not have time to sell their homes and businesses--if they had themto withdraw funds from banks. et cetera. Besides. what buyers would they have found for such homes and businesses? And. like almost all Americans. the equity in their homes and businesses constituted the bulk of their wealth and savings.
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