I thank the gentleman for yielding. and I. too. want to salute the gentleman in the well for his interest and persistence in studying and expressing concern and attempting to achieve a solution to a very serious problem. I also want to express my accord with the remarks of the last gentleman who spoke. We recently passed a new refugee bill. and I was very concerned about that. I felt that it abandoned to the President prerogatives that belong to the Congress. It gave enormous flexibility. with only a token gesture toward retaining some control in Congress. It redefined a refugee as one who is in fear of persecution anywhere on the globe. thus probably bringing within the scope of that definition 14 million people. Yes. we need a policy. yes. the administration can help. But also this Congress has to take a good. hard look at the legislation that we passed. How do we distinguish between a Haitian washed up on the shore and a Soviet refugee about whom our policy is to take everyone we can get and pay their transportation over? What is the difference? Under the definitions. really there is no difference. So I say that we rather thoughtlessly passed legislation and now we must live by it. As to the Cuban refugees. it is a terribly serious problem. but nonetheless a glorious one. in that the utter failure of Castros Communist Cuba can never be more graphically illustrated than these poor people voting with their feet and with their little boats. trying to get away from that Caribbean paradise. We must exploit this phenomenon as best we can to show the utter shabbiness. the utter hollowness of Castros method of governing people. We also must try to develop cooperation from other countries in the hemisphereArgentina.
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