The program is urgently needed now because there are presently no funds available to give temporary assistance to the Americans and their dependents evacuated from Indochina. Many of the Vietnamese who fled their country brought enough money to establish themselves in America. but there are hundreds of Americans stranded at Camp Pendleton without any funds at all. We have now passed the authorization and appropriation for assisting alien refugees. but our own citizens are excluded from that assistance. The Committee on Ways and Means believes that the program should be made permanent. In each of the years since 1961 a small number of destitute Americans have been brought back to the United States from abroad.
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