Fraternity-Testvériség, 1964 (42. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)

1964-11-01 / 11. szám

FRATERNITY

OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE HUNGARIAN REFORMED FEDERATION OF AMERICA Edited by the Officers of the Federation

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Volume XLII NOVEMBER 1964 Number 11

D-DAY FOR A NEW LAW

During the past session Congress again failed to enact basic reforms in the immigration law, a fact of grave concern to many Americans. — Even the bi-partisan sponsorship of $-1932 and HR-7700 did not suffice to get action on the floor.

As one result, America’s foreign relations are still plagued by the question increasingly raised by people of other countries, including the “uncommitted”, “neutral” emerging nations: “If we are good enough for Americans to want us as allies in the Cold War or as friendly associates in other international endeavors, why are we not good enough to receive equal treatment under American immigration quotas and laws?”

Other specific issues cry for attention in addition to general reform. For example, specialists working with Cuban refugees feel the time has come to permit them to have their rather nebulous waiver status changed, to that of permanent residence if they wish. It would not be compulsory, and even after they obtained it they could return to Cuba some day if that proved possible. But it would aid them in their adjustment here right now in countless ways.

This proposal, too, was not acted upon by the recent Congress.

There are always Freddy Fainthearts, who — like Irving’s Wouter Van Twiller — smoke and doubt, alternately, all day long. And there are xenophobes opposed to almost any changes.

A growing cross-section of Americans — among them we of Hungarian extraction —- however, are demanding that discrimination be removed from our immigration law and that other improvements be made. '

If our numbers and our voices are strong enough, D-Day will come in 1965.