American immigration legislation was described today by Displaced Persons Commissioner Harry N. Rosenfield as “America’s Nuremberg Law” in an address before the Bethesda Chevy Chase Jewish Forum. The Commissioner warned that the McCarran-Walter immigration bills now before Congress “would make it possible to expel people who have been living here for 50 years, without giving a reason.”
He described the National Origins Act as a “Nuremberg” law and called it “racist, un-American and vicious.” Of the McCarran-Walter legislation now before Congress, Mr. Rosanfield said: “Man of good will should stand up and fight it.” He said he would call it the “omnibus anti-immigration law.” He warned that the McCarran Bill would pass before the end of this session.
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