I have a telegram from the Mayor of Dade County. Fla.. which reads as follows: As Mayor of Dade County. Florida you have my complete support opposing termination of Cuban Refugee program specially fighting proposed February 22 cut off of medical and welfare payments for all refugees in the United States for over 3 years. Lack of general assistance program in the State of Florida would result in placing an annual burden of approximately 6 million dollars on the tax payers of Dade County. May our Senate understand that the humanitarian act initiated by the Federal Government would prove inhumanttarian to refugees and unfair to the tax payers of Dade County if cut-.off is approved. Thank you for your dedication to a just cause. Mayor STEPHEN P. CLARK. I would also like to comment briefly on the report of the GAO and on the comments of the Senator from Massachusetts on it. What he said was: The time is long overdue for the administration to begin phasing out the Cuban refugee program. This can be done without hardship to the refugees. I think that the Senator from Massachusetts has performed work that is well known in connection with the refugees problems. not only in this country. but also in the world. He has made a great contribution there. It seems to me that there would be no way to cut this thing off by February 22 without a tremendous hardship upon the refugees and the respective States involved. I think if the Senator from Massachusetts was here he would probably state that what he was talking of was a phaseout of the airlift and of the bringing of more people to this country. The airlift is being phased out. Only a trickle of refugees are coming here. The airlift is operating about 1 day out of 10. as I recall. It used to operate every day.
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