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...months later, when an immigration judge ruled on Randall's case, he also found her excludable. Like Mexican Novelist Carlos Fuentes and Japanese Novelist Kobo Abe, Randall had fallen afoul of the McCarran-Walter Act, a McCarthy-era law best known for its three provisions that bar entry to the U.S. for Communists and subversives, including anyone deemed to have advocated Communist ideas. Although the Government regularly grants waivers, critics say the law is still used to exclude those who merely hold unpopular ideas or who question U.S. foreign policy. Says Burt Neuborne, a New York University law professor: "McCarran...
Journalists and civil libertarians have long decried the provisions under which Lara was detained as a remnant of the 1952 McCarran-Walter Act, a piece of McCarthy-era legislation that permits the expulsion of visitors on the basis of their ideas as well as their actions. It also allows the Government to keep to itself the reasons for its action in such cases. Complains Columbia President Michael Sovern: "What you've got is a statute that permits the U.S. Government to keep people out of the country without telling them or anyone else the offense they are alleged to have...
...Europe's, best-known satirists and actors. Americans have heard little of him, for good reason. Fo and his wife, the actress Franca Rame, were about to embark on an American tour in 1980, when the U.S. State Department banged the door shut. State invoked the 1952 McCarran-Walter Act in order to protect the country from Fo's leftist opinions...
Such nativism isn't new. The racist Immigration Act of 1924, and the hysterically anti-Communist McCarran-Walter Act of 1952 both embodied the ugliest aspects of some Americans' attitude toward their nation's role as a world refuge. What is new is that, in the midst of the current xenophobia, two legislators are actually trying to provide a balanced, comprehensive and effective law to mitigate nativism by restoring order at America's frontiers...
...period--BC, O'Dwyer 9 (Cowies, McCarran), 8:44; H, Falcone 2 (Burke, Benson...