House Committee Approves Liberalized
U. S. Immigration; Favorable Action in Senate
Is Assured; Large Quotas Seen for Israel
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
who prefer to move to the U.S.
WASHINGTON—The House Ju-
diciary Committee voted approval
Tuesday for a bill to liberalize the
immigration policy, including
elimination of the discriminatory
national origins quota system.
Strong support on the House
floor was indicated by the 26-4
bipartisan vote of the committee.
The bill, following on lines ad-
vocated by Presidents Kennedy
and Johnson, would terminate the
system instituted in 1924 of as-
signing qudtas to individual na-
tions. The bill establishes a new
and more equitable order of pref-
erences for immigrations. The
chief beneficiaries are close rela-
tions of American citizens.
Under terms of the national ori-
gins quota system, countries in the
North and West of Europe—main-
ly "Anglo Saxon" in background—
are entitled to most of the avail-
able U.S. immigration visas. Many
have gone unused by these coun-
tries, although persons from East-
ern and Southern Europe enjoy
smaller quotas which are heavily
oversubscribed.
The national origins system
was adopted under the pretext
that it reflected the ethnic com-
position of the American popu-
lation in 1920.
The bill would terminate the
quota system on July 1, 1968. Un-
til then, unused quotas would be
pooled to reduce the waiting lists
of applicants from countries which
are allocated small quotas.
On July 1, 1968, a ceiling of
170,000 would be placed on immi-
gration from countries now as-
signed quotas. Each country would
be treated equally. A maximum
limit of 20,000 a year would be
imposed on admissions from any
one nation.
Outside the ceiling would be the
parents, spouses and children of
Anierican citizens. Western hemi-
sphere nations now permitted un-
restricted immigration outside the
quota would not be affected.
The bill would authorize a total
annual immigration of about 370,-
000. Comprising this total would
be 170,000 under the ceiling: 120,-
The backlog of Israeli appli-
cants will be screened and most
of those found eligible would be
admitted to the U.S. within the
next three years if the bill is
passed. The remainder of the
backlog would be admitted soon
thereafter. Israel would be en-
titled to as many as 20,000 maxi-
mum immigration visas yearly
but this would be restricted by
the worldwide ceiling of 170,000
for all countries of the world
outside the western hemisphere.
It would also be restricted by
the priority system of first come
first served and the pooling of
backlogs of the many hundreds
of thousands in various lands
awaiting admission. So, Israel
would only get a share of the in-
creased quota numbers available
through the pooling of unused
quotas.
U. S. Jewish Physicist Heads Discovery Team
NEW YORK (JTA)—The cre-
ation of the first atomic nucleus
of anti-matter corresponding to
the heretofore theoretical opposite
image of the nucleus of deu-
was
pointed
out
that
the
new
It
non - discriminatory system also terium or heavy hydrogen has
makes available an increased op- been produced by a team of five
portunity to Arab states for ad-
mission of all Arabs, including
Palestinian refugees who desire
to emigrate to America.
Dutch Radio Listeners
Meet Appeal to Aid Hero
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
AMSTERDAM — A German who
hid German and Polish Jews dur-
ing World War II in Germany at
a gift of $19,600 by Dutch listeners
to VARA, the Dutch Socalist
radio.
The funds for Ernst Bruno Motz-
ko, who now lives in Essen, were
raised by a special radio appeal.
He now lives on an invalid's pen-
sion of 175 marks ($43) a month.
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Columbia University scientists,
headed by Dr. Leon Lederman, a
prominent Jewish physicist and
professor of physics at the Uni-
versity.
The discovery, which was car-
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is considered a major advance in
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Jewish Leader Says Qantas
Rejected Arab Pressure
NEW YORK — Australia's nat-
ional airline, Qantas, has categor-
ically stated that it did not suc-
cumb to pressure from Arab coun-
tries in withdrawing a represent-
Revolutions are not made; they
ative from Israel and establishing
Middle East representation in come. — Wendell Phillips.
Teheran, Sydney D. Einfield, pres-
ident of the Executive Council of
Australian Jewry, told a luncheon
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meeting of the World Jewish Con-
gress here. Qantas stated, Einfeld
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000 from the Western hemisphere
and 50,000 parents, spouses and
children of American citizens.
Rep. Clark MacGregor, Min-
nesota Republican, offered the
only substantial opposition to
the bill in an amendment to im-
pose the ceiling on Western
hemisphere nations, but his
amendment was rejected. He
said he would attempt to offer
it again when the measure is
called on the House floor.
Chairman Michael A. Feighan
of the House immigration subcom-
mittee greeted the bi-partisan
backing for the bill and voiced
confidence of passage.
A companion bill is now be-
fore the Senate immigration
subcommittee. No difficulty is
anticipated there.
State Department sources re-
vealed Tuesday that an estimated
16,000 Israeli citizens who have
applied for admission to the Unit-
ed States as immigrants will be
admitted, if individually qualified,
if the pending immigration re-
form bill is passed.
A total of 15,122 non-preference
applicants for immigration visas
were recorded on the waiting list
maintained by the U.S. Embassy
in Tel Aviv as of July 1, 1964.
Visa officials in Washington said
this number has since increased
and with the addition of first pref-
erence applicants and other cate-
gories the quota assigned to Israel
is now oversubscribed by an esti-
mated 16,000 Israelis.
The annual quota for Israel is
now set at 100 per year. The State
Department made known that Is-
rael has not requested an increase
in quota to accommodate the enor-
mous oversubscription of Israelis
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
8—Friday, August 6, 1965
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