well how how do you feel about the immigration laws
at currently i think they are a little restrictive uh particularly for uh certain ethnic groups or from certain countries um
i think we should permit uh more immigration from eastern Europe for example
uh particularly the uh the Jewish uh uh people from Russia i think we could permit more of them in than we have uh permitted in the last uh several years
and i think we have uh uh
too much restriction on the uh on the Orientals also
but of course that's just my opinion
yeah well i'm not real sure why i got this topic because i don't think i checked it off on the list because i know very little about the current immigration laws
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well we seem to uh to favor certain uh uh countries particularly South American countries and uh
there is no uh uh i have nothing of course against uh the uh the South Americans or uh
or Hispanics in that sense but i think we uh are more restrictive of the um so called eastern uh European countries than we uh
uh we should be of course that's from my own bias since my ancestors from Eastern Europe so
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and uh
so i think uh you know the um embargo we placed on the uh on the Russian Jews although we spent of uh
spent years and years uh lobbying for their release and their ability to um immigrate from Russia as soon as that occurred we
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simply said that uh instead of the uh hundred and fifty thousand or so who wanted to immigrate to this country we cut that by uh two thirds so
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i do not quite go along with that but
no that doesn't make a whole of lot sense
no
and i still think you know again kind of having uh uh within this century come from a uh
uh an immigrant family or immigrant families on both sides both my mother's parents and my father's parents were immigrants so
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i'm a little touchy every now and then about that
yeah
well uh my uh my family is from uh Europe from well from England and Ireland
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and uh have been in this country for oh more than a hundred and fifty years almost two hundred years
oh my
so i don't have any any uh relatives that i am or or uh
several generations back that i am familiar with their names and how they fit into the family they were all they were all born here
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so i don't have any real strong ties with any with with the immigration laws i don't because i don't
i don't have any personal feelings about them and i i haven't taken the time or effort to learn what they are
well i think in a way though uh uh i also have uh an opposite point of view which is uh
although i believe we should uh permit uh you know constant immigration into this country um
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i think we should uh primarily for economic reasons i think we should have um
some quotas of course my family and i again again that was you know my uh grandparents came over during the time when uh there were quotas so they had to wait uh
you know in uh certain parts of Europe for years before they were permitted to come over
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so you know but uh
yeah i i
i think unrestricted immigration i think is not uh
is not best uh
well i agree with that i i think if immigration was entirely unrestricted
uh not only would would the United States become over populated well more over populated awfully quickly
i think it it would bring in a lot of uh people that are run out of other countries or in trouble in in other countries i think they'd come here trying to find a new market for their their brand of crime
um-hum well you know there's another aspect of this too they're also uh
uh diminishing the uh health restrictions which
i was not aware aware of that
well yes there are were some uh
regulations over i don't know whether they're laws passed or or whatever they're called uh just recently where
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people with certain diseases cannot be excluded uh from immigration AIDS is one for example and uh recently uh
tuberculosis which at one time if you had tuberculosis you could not get into this country uh they dropped that also
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so i think in in some some aspect some ways we are uh becoming a little too egalitarian in that in that sense but uh
i think we should be a little more circumspect about it
again my opinion
yeah
think we've talked long enough
i think so
all right
well i've enjoyed talking to you
or i i i have talked long enough
okay thanks
thank you
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