I appreciate my colleague bringing up this question. It is a relatively new phenomena that. of course. does not reflect U.S. policy. At present. if a refugee is offered a resettlement opportunity. it is our policy not to resettle that family. What I imagine has happened is that the number of receiving countries has grown so since the Geneva meeting last summer that the coordination between all of the agents in the countries of first asylum has broken down. I think this can be rectified very properly by a hearing bringing all of the interested parties together. I would also point out to the gentleman what is happening in these limited circumstances. In countries like England and Ireland. Indochinese refugees are going to the American Embassy and saying because of their association with the United States. they would like to come in as conditional entrants. This bill abolishes the provision of conditional entry into the United States so effectively it would thwart this channel once this bill becomes law.
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