Our interest is not Just limited to our belief in the freedom of mankind. We have other interests as well. If there is one commodity Communist states produce. and produce in abundance. it is refugees. Already. the immigration and social service facilities along our southern border are stretched beyond their capacity to perform effectively. Todays wave of immigrants seeking economic betterment will pale to insignificance before the tidal wave of immigration generated by the oppressiveness of Communist governments. Do not say it will not happenit has happened. time and again. as one country after another has been captured by the Communists. In Eastern Europe. after the Second World War. in Southeast Asia after the fall of Vietnam. armies of refugees have fled. rather than surrender to a more repressive regime than they had ever known. Are we preparedeconomically. socially. and even emotionallyto cope with this problem which will be of our own making. if we stand by and watch the collapse of one Central American government after another? For these reasons I urge that we authorize the military aid request.
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Communist states produce refugees in abundance.