Selfish U.S. Immigration Policy
(11.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, Nov. 7. Alleging the United States was no longer a country of political asylum, the former Secretary for the Interior (Mi- Harold Ickes) predicted the next Congress would not let down the immigration bars for admission of Jewish refugees. “Even if President Truman’s request for additional immigration should be granted the State Department would not let into the United States a single Jew or even non-Jew, who could be strangled by red tape,” he said.
• On the question of immigration, Americans had been selfish to a point of inhumanity.
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Northern Advocate, 8 November 1946, Page 5
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