Mr. President. this week of July 2127. South Dakotans and other Americans will recognize the hundreds of thousands of refugees who have fled their homes in Afghanistan in recent months. All Americans should contribute in some way to the relief of these victims of brutal Soviet Communist imperialism. The people of the United States of America have led all nations in responding to the needs of refugees from oppression and disaster. Our Government continues to provide by far the largest amounts for refugee resettlement and assistance. Our national immigration policies are the most generous and open. Private voluntary contributions in massive amounts are donated by millions of Americans. Vietnamese. Cambodians. Cubans. and Eastern Europeansall refugees from the inhumanities of Communist governmentshave flocked to Americas shores. Their flight from brutality is both a signal of the inevitable failure of communism as a way of life and of the continuing fundamental human desire for liberty and human dignity. Now as many as 1 million people have become refugees in central Asia. They are refugees in their own homeland of Afghanistan and in Pakistan. Once again. Americans are called upon to help and there is no doubt that they should help and will help the Afghanistanls who are being shot. bombed. poisongassed. and starved into submission by the invasion forces of the Soviet Union.
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