A number of Jewish organizations are participating in the resettlement of non-Jewish immigrants to the United States at the request of the U.S. government. Twenty-four stateless Ugandan Asians, expelled from their country by President Idi Amin, arrived this afternoon at Kennedy Airport. The Ugandan refugees came under the sponsorship of United Hias Service.
They will be assisted in their resettlement by Jewish Family-Services and Jewish Federations in Minneapolis. Washington, D.C., Rochester, N.Y., Chicago, Hartford. Los. Angeles, Oakland. Atlanta, Cleveland and Denver, and by the New York Association for New Americans.
In the fall of last year the U.S. government agreed to accept 1000 of the stateless Asians, admitting them under the Attorney General’s parole authority. The U.S. State Department requested that United Hias Service and the major American migration agencies who are experts in the resettlement of refugees participate in this program. United Hias Service agreed to join in this humanitarian project. The cooperating organizations are members of the Committee on Migration and Refugee Affairs of the American Council of Voluntary Agencies for Foreign Service. This committee is chaired by Gaynor I. Jacobson, executive vice-president of Hias.
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