This section was designed to provide assistance to U.S. citizens who are destitute and who are returned from abroad because of illness or war or other great catastrophe or crisis. Mr. Speaker. the urgency behind the bill is brought about by the fact that not only do we have refugees coming to our shores but our own U.S. citizens are being returned by the same unraveling of events in Indochina. This Nation cannot provide assistance to destitute refugees and deny such assistance to its own citizens who are in the same circumstances because of the same series of events. In reactivating this section. I believe the committee has put in two very significant limitations: First. a limitation on the total amount of assistance that can be given. and. second. a limitation on the length of time that this assistance can be provided in any Individual case.
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