Mr. Speaker. I have introduced a "sense of Congress" resolution calling upon the United States to reaffirm its traditional concern for refugees and for the individual human being and to reaffirm the policy of the United States to offer asylum to all escapees and refugees from totalitarian persecution and tyranny. I never anticipated. Mr. Speaker. that I would ever feel compelled to introduce this resolution. This great country of ours. throughout history. has maintained a world image of humanity and the land of the free and a free land for those who escape from persecution and oppression. But. the recent fiasco aboard a U.S.
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