No. that is not a legal limitation in the bill. but it is by custom and practice that parole has not been granted without consultation and agreement of the Congress. The bill contemplates considerably less than 150.000. We have only 121.605 refugees from Indochina who are currently under U.S. control. In addition. there are those afloat in the Pacific. and we are not sure exactly how many there are of them because they have been picked up by ships of other nations. and the number has not been precisely determined as of this moment. In further response to the inquiry of the gentleman from California there is no evidence at all that the present Government of South Vietnam is going to allow any further refugees or citizens of that country to leave to seek haven in this Nation. The gentleman from California has mentioned one other matter. and that is about the difference in expense. It is my recollection that there is only a $100 difference between what was computed for the maintenance of the Cuban refugees in the 1960s. and that was for a figure of $500. and what we are asking for today. $600. I think in the terms in which the gentleman from California placed it. this shows that we are really at a rockbottom figure. Mr.
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