It did not come from the chairman of the Appropriations Committee. It just came the way it comes. because Joe Sureck was saying. "Read the book. A refugee is a refugee is a refugee." And they bounced Joe Sureck out on his head in a most remarkable way. And I have seen the State Department fight with the INS. They really do in this area. If you were to leave refugee processing only to the State Departmentand this is no reflection on the present occupant of the chair or anyone past or futureyou will not even make any really hard decisions on refugees. because the issue will become very simple: "Dont mess with that country. If they say they are under some pressure. we will take them and we will invent a category for them or put them under parole authority or change the name to EVD." or whatever else one may want to call it. So the State Department is never going to make those. tough decisions about exclusion of human beings from our shores.
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