We can distribute literature calling for replacement of Israel by a Palestinian state. or calling for a Greater Israel with its Arabs expelled. All that is so clear that I would have thought it unchallengeable. But it is being challenged now. from an astonishing quarter: the United States Government. through its Immigration and Naturalization Service. The I.N.S. is taking the position that freedom of political expression does not apply to aliens resident in this country. If after coming to America they join an organization that circulates certain publications. the I.N.S. says. they can be imprisoned and deported. And that is so even though the organization and the publications are entirely lawfuland could not. constitutionally. be made unlawful. This amazing theory is being pressed by the I.N.S. in a case involving eight Palestinian residents of Los Angeles * * * [who] were arrested at gunpoint on Jan. 26. and proceedings to deport them began.
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