The State Department made known today that 45 Palestinian Arab refugees have been granted American visas for permanent residence in the United States as the first of the 2,000 Arab refugees authorized admission under the Refugee Relief Act of 1953.
The Arabs will leave for the United States in the next few weeks to settle in 13 states. (At a celebration at the U.S. Embassy in Amman, Jordan, the Arabs referred to themselves as “refugees from totalitarianism” and expressed appreciation for the visas. They came from various parts of Palestine “now occupied by Israel.”)
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