I dont envy you your job. The problems that these circumstances are creating seem to multiply every day. I thought when we passed the Refugee Act and established the numbers and the procedure for expanding the numbers that we were putting ourselves in a position where Congress would make the policy as to the numbers. Now. all of a sudden its slipping away from us under this emergency. We are talking about the Cubans. We are not talking about the numbers. the procedures under the statute. On page 12 you say they will be treated as political asylum cases. Of course. that provision is made for asylum procedure n the Act. The act. section 208 (a). says the Attorney General shall establish a procedure for asylum. and the alien may be granted asylum in the discretion of the Attorney General if the Attorney General determines such alien is a refugee. We come back to the basic point of the legislation and. of course. to the policy of this legislation: That you have to be a refugee. and Congress has to decide how many refugees there are. I dont think the Attorney General has had time to establish this procedure since the act. but there was one kind of In place before. Where does the 60day parole. for example. come from. the 60day parole with deferred inspection?
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