The House today passed by a voice vote a bill to admit 5,000 refugees from Iron Curtain countries now in Western Europe. The bill continues for two years the authority of the Attorney General to admit refugees by parole instead of regular immigration procedure.
Chairman Francis E. Walter, of the House Immigration Subcommittee, revealed in the course of the debate that there is virtually no chance for House action this session on the sweeping changes in the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act requested by President Eisenhower in March.
The President’s proposal would double the number of immigrants admitted yearly. Rep. Walter, a Pennsylvania Democrat, said his subcommittee first wants to study “the capacity of this country to absorb them.”
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