Dr., Santiage Peralta, Argentine Minister of ##igration, denied at a press conference here that he has discriminated against Jews asking admission as immigrants to the country.Dr. Peralta insisted that the government, rather than he, decided on immigration policy and that he only ruled on each case on its own morits. He said, however, at he preferred agricultural workers as immigrants. Queried about the possibility admitting workers as well as farmers, he replied that there was some need for ##lled workers and technical specialists, but emphasized a second time his preference for agricultural workers.
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