Although the Refugee Relief Act of 1953 establishes special conditions for admission of refugees to the United States, such refugees will “still have to qualify under the McCarran-Walter Act,” according to Rep. Francis E. Walter, co-author of the Act, who represents this district in Congress.
Mr. Walter, whose immigration policies are under sharp editorial attack from the Easton Express, local daily, in a letter to the editor, claimed credit for inclusion in the refugee aid measure of a provision permitting 15,000 close relatives of American citizens to enter the country.
The newspaper, replying editorially, pointed out that while Mr. Walter had introduced this amendment, he had voted against the bill in its entirety and commented that he could take “precious little credit for the liberalization of the emergency immigration law’s quotas.”
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