Subsequent to our granting approval of the 3.500. this whole wave. this whole flotilla of what now numbers 112.000. has been received into the United States without any consultation. without any approval on the part of Congress. without augmenting the refugee level above the 232.000. plus the 3.500. and we are in sort of a no mans land as far as who these people are and what they are. ] 1410 We are all sympathetic to the subject of reunification of families. However. we had one witness who came before our committee who was a convict who had been let out of jail. He said he had been let out of jail along with 4.000 others. herded onto buses and taken to the harbor. loaded on boats and brought over here. We have not yet identified the other 3.999. but we do know that there are a fairly large number of prostitutes who were taken off the streets and brought over here. We have received the retarded. we have received the mental defectives and we have received many others who are not eligible as immigrants or refugees. It seems to me when we are providing $100 million we should be more certain as to what kind of people we are going to be taking care of. Mr.
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Generalizes that Cuban refugees include convicts, prostitutes, the retarded, and the mentally defective.