Mr. Speaker. I continue to be concerned and upset by the immigration policies of the Reagan administration. There appears to be a doublestandard attitude toward people escaping from persecutionwhen those people happen to have dark skin. For Ethiopians and Haitians. the administration is ignoring the accepted international definition of political refugee: Those who flee because of a "well founded fear of persecution." Ethiopia is Communist controlled. That fact alone would seem capable of dropping our immigration barriers. if we note how our doors have swung wide open for Soviet dissidents. Hun. garian freedom fighters. and those who were unhappy with life in Cas. tros Cuba. Why not Ethiopians?
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