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The Administration Breaks the Law

The folks on Capitol Hill are as anxious to help the Hungarian refugees as anyone else. That goes without saying. But many of the legislators and staff experts on immigration matters are extremely critical of the way the problem has been handled.—i.e. (say some of the critics), the wrong law was used in the beginning, and i.e. (say the others), there was no law available to admit the Hungarians after the first 6,500 had been let in, the point of this latter contention being that the Administration should have called a special session of Congress in November rather than take matters into its own hands. The dispute and the story behind it are not, be forewarned, uncomplicated; but let’s have agoatit anyway, for a number of important questions are at stake which have been generally overlooked by the daily press.

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The Administration Breaks the Law

The folks on Capitol Hill are as anxious to help the Hungarian refugees as anyone else. That goes without saying. But many of the legislators and staff experts on immigration matters are extremely critical of the way the problem has been handled.—i.e. (say some of the critics), the wrong law was used in the beginning, and i.e. (say the others), there was no law available to admit the Hungarians after the first 6,500 had been let in, the point of this latter contention being that the Administration should have called a special session of Congress in November rather than take matters into its own hands. The dispute and the story behind it are not, be forewarned, uncomplicated; but let’s have agoatit anyway, for a number of important questions are at stake which have been generally overlooked by the daily press.