If this money is cut off. local communities which have felt the impact of this very unique inflow of new residents. will find themselves even more hard pressed to meet the basic needs of their people. Their problems will increase. instead of diminishing. Cuban refugees have been resettled in all 50 States and more than 3.000 communities. The 15 States and District of Columbia. other than Florida that have the greatest number areas of April 30. 1970: New York ------------------------ 68.995 New Jersey ----------------------45.298 California -----------------------31.211 Illinois --------------------------18. 222 Massachusetts ---------------------6.941 Louisiana ------------------------6.356 Texas ----------------------------4.748 Pennsylvania --------------------- 3.452 Connecticut ---------------------- 3.125 Ohio ----------------------------2. 209 Michigan -------------------------2.310 District of Columbia --------------- 2. 164 Georgia --------------------------1.993 Virginia -------------------------- 1.915 Maryland ------------------------- 1.512 Mr. Chairman. I would like to add some comments about the whole issue of the Cuban airlift. This undertaking. conceived in good faith and for plainly humanitarian reasons. has offered an opportunity for a new life in freedom for nearly 200.000 refugees from Cuba. That is precisely what those people were. They could not live. indeed survive. in the totalitarian Communist order imposed on Cuba by the Castro regime.
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