Mr. BROoKs. and the ranking member. the gentleman from New York . the gentleman from Connecticut and others who are responsible for getting this legislation before us. I think the United States of America and the people of the United States have reason to be proud of immigration policy. which compared to the immigration policies of most other countries in the world has really stood out positively. Every once in a while. though. we tend to engage in an act which I think diminishes America. We did that during the 1930s when there were German Jewish refugees knocking on our doors. We refused to let them in. For some decades now we have been telling the world how terrible the treatment of the Soviet Union is of their citizens. of Soviet Jews. of Pentecostals. and of others and we adopted a policy encouraging the Soviet Union to let those people go.
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