The agencies are reimbursed by the program for the expenses incurred in these activities. Under close supervision of USEP officials. all projects are in keeping with the humanitarian objectives of the agencies and the overall operational objective of establishing the escapees as selfsustaining and useful citizens of the free world community whether in this country or abroad. In so doing the program has helped to alleviate the frequently serious economic and political impact of the escapees on the countries in which they seek asylum. thus enhancing the economic and political stability of the free world. Over the past decade. more than 926.000 persons have been assisted through the escapee program at a total cost of just under $55 million. Over 54.100 of these escapees have been admitted to the United States. The remaining persons have stayed in the countries of first asylum. or have been resettled in other parts of the world. There is no yardstick with which to measure accurately the impact of our refugee policies on our foreign relations or the strength of the free world. But I suggest that our treatment of refugees and escapees does play a vital role in this regard. USEP. certainly. has been a highly successful program and a good investment in free world security. It has demonstrated tangibly Americas traditional humanitarianism for oppressed and persecuted people. the constancy of our opposition to communism. and our concern for those enslaved by its tyranny.
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