The Controversy Over Proposals to Bring 400,000 Displaced Persons to America.

EMIGRATION & immigration; IMMIGRATION law; LEGAL status of political refugees; NONCITIZENS; ASSIMILATION (Sociology)

Focuses on the problems of immigration and displaced persons (DP) in the United States in 1948. Political ideologies of government that the DPs may have or lean toward; Determination of whether or not DPs could readily be assimilated into the American way of doing things; Constitutional precedents on alien matters; Ways in which U.S. laws stand in respect to immigration and migratory trends.