Mr. Speaker. Id like to express my utmost concern for the growing problems of uncontrolled refugee migration. We. as representatives of the American people must now address ourselves to the costs of the Carter administrations lack of a firm refugee policy. But the question will remain as to how to deal with future mass exoduses such as the CubanHaitian one. We must focus on the present situation keeping in mind what our present actions denote for the future. We must have a firm. coherent policy for dealing with such peoples as the Haitians and Cubans. President Carter. after 2 months of inconsistency in his CubanHaitian exodus policy. has finally established a cutoff date which occurred June 19. He must now make it clear that additional refugees will be relocated to other countries or repatriated to Cuba. The price of delay has been dear. Because of the Presidents open arms policy a few weeks ago. more and more Caribbean peoples will be enticed to leave their impoverished homelands to seek the wealth of America.
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