The Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) has asked the Ministry of Employment and Immigration not to admit Archbishop Valerian Trifa, of Grass Lake, Mich., into Canada in view of the proceedings against him by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service and because of his record as a leader of the pro-Nazi Iron Guard in Rumania during World War 11. Trifa has been charged by the INS with lying about his membership in the Iron Guard when he applied for American citizenship after the war.
Alan Rose, the CJC’s executive vice-president, has sent a letter to Bud Cullen, Minister of Employment and Immigration, in response to a request to the CJC for any information it has on Trifa. Trifa entered Canada as a visitor last year and there are rumors he plans to return here as an immigrant.
The CJC said that it has also offered to send a delegation to Skokie, III., when and if Jewish groups there hold a counter-demonstration to the planned Nazi march.
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