Mr. President. Sundays edition of the Washington Post chronicled a serious row in United StatesTha relations which has come about because of our sputtering refugee program in Southeast Asia. Today I am introducing legislation which would commit the United States to a humane and generous refugee protection and resettlement program in that region through the end of this decade. and bar the Immigration and Naturalization Service from any further role in the processing of Southeast Asian refugees. John Stuart Mill once said. "Against a great evil a small remedy does not produce a small result... it produces no result at all." I have examined all of the options which the United States has at its disposal to combat the deteriorating refugee asylum and resettlement situation in Southeast Asia. and I am convinced that anything less than the provisions of this bill will produce no result. no serious improvement at all. In fact. the refugee program as we know it will be dead in a matter of months unless Congress and the administration send a very strong signal of our continuing interest and commitment to the countries of first asylum in the region. I am pleased that the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Mr. PaL. and the ranking member of the Immigration and Refugee Policy Subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee.
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