The Justice Ministry today ordered more than 60 persons residing in Sao Paulo on tourist visas to leave the country immediately on pain of $1,000 fine and deportation or a term of enforced labor in an internment colony. The list includes 56 Jews whose applications for permanent residence had been rejected.
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