American immigration policy has completely eliminated the humane idea “that this great free country should be a haven of refuge for the persecuted of the earth,” Senator Richard L. Neuberger of Oregon tonight told a Carnegie Hall Rally for a Fair Immigration Law. The meeting was called by 30 Catholic, Protestant and Jewish organizations, to protest against the provisions of the McCarran-Walter Immigration and Refugee Relief Acts.
Sen. Neuberger described the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act as the product of “men who think all people are not God’s equal children, but that there is some magical super-race, ordained to rule mankind and to occupy superior status on the face of the globe.” The Oregon Senator ventured the opinion that “everybody in this country except the direct descendants of American Indians are the result of immigration to our continent.”
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