"The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 excluded from the United States past and present members of proscribed organizations, such as the Communist party and Communist-front organizations, and advocates of proscribed doctrines, such as communism.
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'...I'm fed up with the image we have as a police state. I keep seeing reports about excluding visitors because of their political views. We act like a closed society...You know what I want--an Open Society--with the freest possible movement in and out of the country. And a new immigration law.'"
-President John F. Kennedy to Abba Schwartz, whom Kennedy had appointed head of the Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs, United States Department of State, 1962. The Open Society, Schwartz (1968), 25, quoted in Robert Kennedy And His Times, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (1978), 435.
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'...I'm fed up with the image we have as a police state. I keep seeing reports about excluding visitors because of their political views. We act like a closed society...You know what I want--an Open Society--with the freest possible movement in and out of the country. And a new immigration law.'"
-President John F. Kennedy to Abba Schwartz, whom Kennedy had appointed head of the Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs, United States Department of State, 1962. The Open Society, Schwartz (1968), 25, quoted in Robert Kennedy And His Times, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (1978), 435.
