The Subcommittee on Refugees and Escapees has been with us for a long time. It is just as bad as or perhaps worse than the Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency. I notice that we are increasing the amount. and that the subcommittee plans to concern itself with the problem of refugees in Asiaespecially in South Vietnam and Laos. Why should we undertake to do that. I should like to know. Are we going to take care of them? As I stated a while ago. we greatly assisted our friends across the seas. particularly in Europe. A bill was introduced under which we took on almost half a million refugees. We have been helping in the field for more than 20 years. When we were confronted with the refugee problem in Cuba some time ago. an effort was made to obtain some assistance. I was told about that effort before the Committee on Appropriations. But when we knocked at the door of our friends for their assistance. there was nobody home. We were told. "It is your baby. you take care of it." I am wondering why we should go into a study of refugees in Asia. Are we to bring them into the United States. feed them and take care of them. as we have done in the case of so many other refugees in the past? Is that the purpose of the investigation?
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