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I feel quite strongly that this bill will help to keep America as a sanctuary for these unfortunates. Mr. Speaker. my attention was first drawn to this matter last year when Virginia Prewett. the distinguished columnist on Latin American affairs. described the plight of Haitian refugees and exiles in the United States. She said in a column appearing in the Washington Daily News that "the same terror that stalks dictatorridden Haiti now haunts Haitians in the United States." She reported that "a new secret service recently created by Haitis President Francois Duvalier and called the international squad is spying on Haitians in New York and elsewhere with brutal reprisals for those who criticize Duvalier overseas and then go home." Private American detective agencies allegedly operated as part of this apparatus. Indeed. records of the U.S.