Why is aid in the one case acceptable. but not in the other? In both cases our national security Interests are very much at stake. and particularly in Central America. we are faced with a threat of staggering proportions. The estimates of 8 to 10 percent of the population of that region coming to the United States as political refugees would overwhelm the capacity of the United States to absorb that number600.000 boat people from Southeast Asia cost the States and Federal Government billions of dollars. Two millionplus "foot people" would be an economic overload on Americas taxpayers. I urge my colleagues to stick by a policy that is working and that is more cost efficient than any of the alternatives that might be considered.
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