We on the subcommittee are willing to do the work. we are the ones who would have to spend the time and hold the hearings. make the decisions. continue with the oversight over the next year. We are willing to do that. We have found that. despite our best intentions. certain consequences of the Refugee Act and refugee programs that flowed therefrom are that we have tremendous welfare dependency in a group of people that we thought it was impossible to make welfaredependent. that we have had misguided results regarding how most effectively to provide those programs that would get Southeast Asian refugees into the mainstream of society in an economic sense. And these things were done unintentionally. One small example is that we decided. instead of establishing a secondtrack system of providing cash assistancewelfare essentiallyto refugees. with all the bureaucracy that that would entail. we would utilize already existing programs. In other words. use the already existing welfare sites and facilities. The problem with that is that we bring these people into the United States and explain their eligibility for certain programs.
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