Mr. President. under the able chairmanship of my colleague from Wyoming . chairman of our Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Policy. we held today an extraordinarily important hearing on the problems the United States faces in resettling refugees as a country of first asylum. Senator SIMPSONs hearings continue the Judiciary Committees effort from last year to review the problems attendant with the influx last year of Cubans. and from the continuing flow of Haitians seeking asylum in the United States today. First asylum issues are enormously complex. and both Senator SIMPSON and I wrestled with them as members of the recent Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy. The administration presented today its proposals for dealing with this issue and we had a good discussion on them in our hearing today. Because refugee and asylum issues are national problems. they must be of concern to all Senators. And because they are of concern to many Americans. especially the voluntary agencies and church groups as well as State and local agencies. I want to share with them and my colleagues some of the prepared testimony we heard today.
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