Mr. Speaker. I thank you for this opportunity to bring to the attention of our esteemed colleagues a resolution passed by the City of Miami Commission at its meeting of May 12. 1983. in which is expressed the forthright determination that we must not permit the deportation of persons coming to our Nation to escape the cruel political repression of communism. Our country was founded upon the shining ideal of personal liberty of people from all the countries of the world who populated this continent that was to be a "new world" for mankind. For the oppressed. the hungry. the hopeless. the underprivileged. the poor. and principled dissenters our Nation was a haven where the governed agreed to participate in the democratic constitution of government as long as government guaranteed their rights to fair and equal treatment under law. their freedoms of thought. speech. and movement unless convicted with due process by a jury of their peers.
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