Mr. Speaker. the flight of the Vietnamese refugees from their homes to any country in the world that will take them is a reminder of events that took place just over 40 years ago. While the world watched ambivilently. the holocaust of Nazi tyranny became a reality to millions of Jews in Europe who struggled to reach freedom by land and by sea and then were denied free passage at ports of entry around the world. They were the "boat people" of the last generation. but they and their sons and daughters have not forgotten how they expected the world to react to their own plight.
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