The reason I bring this up now is this: Our plan now. as I understand it. is to close our screening process in Thailand by the end of May. The original plan was to end by late June. We did not foresee the complexities of this new wave of people. and I am not suggesting that we wait until all of the new refugees are taken care of. But. there is still a nucleus of original refugees that we have been working with who have family reunification problems. And. because of this recent wave of people across the border. the original group is not able to get satisfactory screening and rescreening which has been necessary for many of them. I have a number of Khmer people as constituents in Ohio who have relatives in Thailand that are waiting for resettlement. Because of this Interest. my daughter. Lyn Freedman. recently spent a month in Thaihnd and the Far East. She talked to many of those relatives. and she went to the border camps to visit with the new refugees. I know secondhand from her about the refugee situation there. The reason I bring this matter up. is that while we are taking up foreign policy matters. I hope the administration can be convinced that we should keep our State Department and INS screening teams in Thailand long enough to get the original refugee groups screened and rescreened. so every effort is made to be certain that families are reunified where it is justified. Let me make it very clear. I do not want any Khmer Rouge to be processed. but I am concerned that many Khraer have been wrongly branded as Khmer Rouge.
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