President. let us assume that these people succumb to our enticements and risk everything to escape to the free West. Then what are we to do with them? Certainly we cannot give them a visa because the Refugee Relief Act has expired and in almost all cases the country of their origin has a heavily oversubscribed quotasome countries are oversubscribed for the next 10 years. So the only alternative is for them to continue to live in refugee camps and if you have ever seen such a camp. then you know it is not a very desirable abode. but there is something else they can do and that is defectgo back behind the Iron Curtain and tell the Communists how they were received and deceived by the socalled free West. So far. only a small number have defected. those who became discouraged and disillusioned by the long delay and endless redtape in trying to get a visa. The Communists. you know. are not asleep. They are continually trying to induce the escapees to return. promising them a full pardon for having escaped. houses and jobs. If these escapees. beginning to realize the futility of spending more years in a camp. returned by the thousands as they are sure to do. then the United States from a propaganda standpoint. will most certainly be discreditedin fact. we will be a great deal worse off than we were before we initiated this programwe. will have miserably failed. Now our promise to take a certain number of these refugees did set an example to other countries of the world. just as the President of the United States hoped it would. These countries opened their doors to large numbers of refugees. many more than the United States and are to this day continuing to admit them. Many hundreds of thousands of refugees have gone to Australia. Canada. and almost all of the South American countries. This was in reliance on the promise of the United States to do likewise and now we are about to defaultto break our promise.
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