Will that number be 500.000. 650.000. 800.000. or 798.000 who have come in this year? No one knows. But there is a time coming where I think it is safe to say that we are going to reach some number as to the numbers of people who can emigrate and come into this country under the rule of authority or whatever process the Commission sets up. I would prefer that we not have a number set in this bill because I think it is important that the Commission. where the vote was overwhelming and supported by the administration as a nonpartisan commission. have an opportunity to continue its work and to come forward with its recommendations. That time. it seems to me. would be the most appropriate time for Members to offer substitutes. a lesser number. a greater number. less restrictions. a quota system. if someone feels that -is the appropriate manner. It appears to this Senator. however. that the Senator from Kentucky has offered this in the best sense of establishing a sense of the House and the Senate. a sense that for the American people. as generous as they have been in the past and even today. there has to be some limit and to place some number. as arbitrary as it may be. I can sympathize with the Senator from Kentucky. I think he expresses the feeling of many. many people in this country. and probably the vast majority. of where are we going to be next year if 798.000 have come in this year. and if. indeed. 234.000 refugees before the Cubans were admitted to the country and 114.000plus Cubans in only 6 months of this year? What are we going to have at the end of the year? Is it not proper to think that perhaps in 1981. if there are some disasters. and if there are 14 million refugees throughout the world. and I am satisfied that number is fairly accurate. what will prohibit the process from letting several million come into the country? Is that in our best interest? Is it in the best interests of this country?
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