At the time. the refugee assistance program was started we had nothing to go on. We had to start from scratch. In 1961 a program of relief loans patterned on the National Defense Education Act. was set up for Cuban refugees. Under this program. 12.000 college loans have been granted and only 147 of these loans have been declared delinquent. I would challenge any other group in American society who have had loans of any kind from Government to equal that record. Wherever I have gone around the country. various people in the social service field who have handled similar problems speak in the most glowing terms of how the Cubans have been able to enter the mainstream of American life.
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Cuban refugees are described as having a better loan repayment record than any other group.