Mr. Speaker. those of us from the 21 States with large refugee populations are delighted by the action of the U.S. District Court for Northern California directing the Reagan administration to release forthwith $11.5 million in refugee targeted assistance funds. These funds are used to provide refugee employment and employmentrelated services in heavily impacted areas. This money is absolutely essential if we are to enable refugees to achieve selfsufficiency. Our investment now in job training for refugees will be repaid many times over by the contributions that employable and selfsufficient refugees will be able to make to the communities in which they live. I regret that we were forced to take the extreme measure of suing the administration to compel their release of the funds. I hope now that they will move speedily to comply with the courts order so that this money. so desperately needed. can be put to good use.
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