Spain. Canada. Australia. and Costa Ricawhich have indicated a willingness to accept or have already accepted several hundred refugees each. I hope they can be persuaded to take many more. Together. their offers. still tentative. amount to a mere 3.300 persons. This leaves well over 100.000 for the United States. Other free world nations. especially the wealthiest ones in Europe. should be pressed to take a meaningful number of refugees. if their claim to share in our compassion and humanitarianism is to have any meaning. The result of their rejection of this proposal will be the increased reluctance. perhaps the outright refusal of the American people to continue our great tradition of concern for those "huddled masses yearning to breathe free." I need not go into detail on the consequences should that American tradition be concluded. It would in any case be a world less happy. with less hope for its oppressed peoples.
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