Mr. President. this is a problem that I know faces the State of Florida as well as a number of other communities. But we cannot accept economic factors alone as causing someone to be defined as a refugee. We do have the Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy. that is considering a wide variety of different immigration problems and also refugee problems. I am a member of that Commission. along with Senator DECONCINI and Senator SIMPSON and Senator MATHIAS from the Judiciary Committee. I would be glad to write the Chairman of the Commission and urge they give special consideration to this problem. urge that they have a hearing in Florida at the Senators convenience. to really focus on this and to give us recommendations about ways that we might proceed. But economic motivations are not covered in the bills definition of a refugee. or in the U.N. Convention and Protocol.
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