Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey charged today in a Senate speech that the State Department is exploiting a fear of foreigners to the degree that virtually all prospective immigrants seeking admittance under the 1953 Emergency Refugee Act are being barred. He referred to the Act which provides authority for the admission in excess of usual quotas of 209,000 persons and 5,000 orphans. The Senator described the administration of the act to bar rather than admit immigrants as a “tragedy.”
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