The second part of the amendment also goes to people who in good faith efforts seek to help those people seeking political asylum. If that journey to asylum from political torture or imprisonment or harassment is interrupted in the meantime. that person can then be prosecuted under the committee bill. Even if it is later adjudicated. if they are taking the person down to apply for political refugee status and the person is given status. they can still be prosecuted. I think this is a case where perhaps the committee simply has cast the net a little bit too far. I would hope that the committee would take this amendment. with the recognition that there may be additional refinement that needs to be done. because I think nobody here is for the harboring as we know it in the criminal sense. But I would hope that they would take the amendment from the gentlewoman from California and recognize the two problems and the distinction between harboring and the handling of political refugees. That is an issue in this country that I know the gentleman from Massachusetts and others have stressed. I would think that this is one area where the conference should refine the amendment.
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