We certainly want them to feel they are as beloved and we are as anxious to be as friendly with the Cubans as with the people of any other country of the world. I think there is hostility perhaps being generated as a result of this uncontrolled flow. At the same time. we do have a responsibility and the law requires us to set a limit on the number of refugees and then to indicate where these refugees are to come from. Mr. Speaker. may I just point out there are more than a million members of families of U.S. citizens who are waiting for visas so that they can come to this country to be joined with their loved ones. These numbers are being eased up while we accept hundreds of thousands or more than a hundred thousand people who do not have a visa. have no passport. who in some cases are being released from prison. loaded into buses. herded onto boats like human cargo. and hauled across the straits into Florida and then distributed around the United States. Now that is no immigration or refugee policy as I see it and that is the sort of thing we want to stop. Mr. Speaker. I am directing my remarks at the President and at the administration and not at individual refugees.
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Cubans are described as being 'released from prison, loaded into buses, herded onto boats like human cargo'.