Introduced in the House as H.R. 6481 by Louis E. Graham (R–PA) on July 27, 1953
Committee consideration by House Judiciary
Passed the House on July 28, 1953 (221-185)
Passed the Senate on July 29, 1953 (63-30)
Reported by the joint conference committee on July 29, 1953; agreed to by the House on July 31, 1953 (Agreed) and by the Senate on August 1, 1953 (Agreed)
Signed into law by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on August 7, 1953
On August 7, 1953, President Eisenhower signed the Refugee Relief Act of 1953, also known as the Emergency Migration Act, into law to provide relief for certain refugees, orphans, and other purposes.[1] This act was mainly intended for people from Southern Europe barred due to the numerical limits from the quotas under the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, widely known as the McCarran-Walter Act.
The Refugee Relief Act of 1953 was the United States' second refugee admissions and resettlement law, following the Displaced Persons Act of 1948, which expired at the end of 1952.[1] Under this act, 214,000 immigrants were admitted to the United States, including 60,000 Italians, 17,000 Greeks, 17,000 Dutch, and 45,000 immigrants from communist countries.[1] The act was designed to aid those fleeing European Communist countries, like the Soviet Union and Eastern Germany.[2]
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United States through the 1948 and 1950 Displaced Persons Acts and the RefugeeReliefAct of 1953. Supporters of the acts exhibited only slight awareness that...
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born in the Western Hemisphere from the quota. In 1953, the RefugeeReliefAct extended refugee status to non-Europeans. In 1954, Operation Wetback forced...
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of the RefugeeReliefAct in 1957 and an additional slot of 15,000 visas in 1958. In 1958, the Pastore–Walter Immigration Act for the relief of certain...
mixed South Korean babies. United States Congress passed the 1953 RefugeeReliefAct which allowed 4000 Amerasians to emigrate to the US for adoption....
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on assisting Italian immigrants. After a vast effort in 1953, the RefugeeReliefAct (RRA) was passed allowing the entrance of over two hundred thousand...
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War II, the IRC initiated emergency relief programs, established hospitals and children's centers, and started refugee resettlement efforts in Europe. With...
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still more refugees, prompting governments to act: U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt proposed the agency in June 1943, to provide relief to areas...
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