Speech #890296543

Speaker. I am somewhat disturbed that the impression seems to be. from some of the speeches that have been made. that Cuba is all of a sudden a friend of ours and that Cuba is the kind of country that is turning toward the United States. I do not know how many Members of this body were here a few days ago when one of our colleagues. the gentleman from West Virginia . gave a speech concerning the number of Cuban refugees who have come to the United States at our expensethey number some 300.000 refugees. The gentleman pointed out that there are approximately 300.000 more Cubans who want to come to the United States at our expense to escape the dictatorship of Mr. Castro.