Lautenberg Amendment Still Gives Special Privileges to Jews in immigration

Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-New Jersey)Commentary by Dr. Patrick Slattery – In 1989 Jewish Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), who died last month after almost 30 years in the Senate, is being widely eulogized for the passage of legislation providing special immigration privileges to members of certain religious minorities in certain countries. Known at the time as the Lautenberg Amendment (not to be confused with a later Lautenberg amendment on gun control), it provided status as religious refugees to Jews from the former Soviet Union and Iran based solely on their ethnicity, even if they had never experienced any discrimination and even if they did not practice any religion. While certain non-Jews also were covered by the legislation, it overwhelmingly benefited Jews. Combined with the Jackson-Vanik Amendment of 1974 that pressured the Soviets to open the door to massive Jewish emigration, this legislation resulted in the mass transfer of Soviet Jewry to both the U.S. and Israel. The amendment is renewed quietly every year by “our” elected representatives. (See here for an account of last year’s renewal.)

 The article below was written by self-described anti-white supremacist Jeffery Perry. While he does not tie the Lautenberg Amendment to the on-going effort to establish Jewish supremacy, he does provide a good factual description of the massive preferences afforded to Jews in immigration. -ps

Adam Clymer’s New York Times article on the death of New Jersey Senator Frank R. Lautenberg (June 4, 2013) briefly mentions a “Lautenberg measure [that] gave refugee status to people from historically persecuted groups without requiring them to show that they had been singled out” and noted that the senator “estimated that 350,000 to 400,000 Jews entered the United States under the 1990 law” and that “Evangelical Christians from the former Soviet Union also benefited from the law.”

The article does not mention some of the most significant aspects of the little-known Lautenberg Amendment, Public Law 101-167, which was enacted November 21, 1989 and has been renewed annually by the U.S. Congress.

According to the Congressional Research Service (report on “Refugee Admissions and Resettlement Policy”) the Lautenberg Amendment, allows those groups covered by the legislation (nationals from the former Soviet Union, Estonia, Latvia or Lithuania who are Jews, Evangelical Christians, Ukrainian Catholics or Ukrainian Orthodox; nationals of Vietnam, Laos, or Cambodia; and Jews, Christians, Baha’is and other religious minorities from Iran) to prove they are eligible for special refugee status “with a credible, but not necessarily individual, fear of persecution.”

(Read the rest of the article here.)

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