It merely adds another group of persons and makes them eligible within the class. They are also persons who fled their country because of fear of personal and political persecution. The American political refugee. the person who resisted the war in Vietnam because it was illegal and immoral. was forced to go into exile in Sweden and in Canada and is unable to return because of fear of prosecution. is entitled to the same kind of assistance that the Vietnamese and the Cambodian refugee is entitled to. Do we not have a responsibility. first and foremost. to the American political refugee? Is it not to them that we should feel a prior responsibility? Is it not really the essence of germaneness in the last analysis to provide for our own political refugees as we provide for political refugees from other lands? Certainly we should include them under the same category and under the same conditions as we provide relief for these others. Therefore I submit that the purpose of this amendment is germane which says: ... strike out "aliens" and insert in lieu thereof "persons" . . .
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