Those camps are often out of control. Those camps are not desirable places to live and to bring up your family as some people must. but those camps are indeed often the scum of where one would not want to be there and people are not there most often by choice but because indeed if they return to their original country or if they return to the place from where they come they would be severely deprived. their lives indeed would be in danger. Then the processing will only draw more people to the camps. the processing of long stayers. people who somehow are not refugees. according to my friend from Wyoming. but have been there for years in these camps and in the event that they are processed. they will only draw more people to the camp. Regrettably that appears that it may be true. that the condition of many of these people in that part of the world is so bad that in the event that refugees are allowed to be processed often this attracts more people to these camps. more people who have a hope for freedom. more people who have a hope that their lives may be fulfilled and they should not live in fear an deprivation. So I respectfully disagree with my friend and colleague from Wyoming. I feel that the coming of these refugees not only enobles our country and enobles our people. but it strengthens our country whether it is economically or morally or any other way and indeed it rejuvenates our coutnry. as I see the young people go through high school and college with my children. outstanding students. students that have excelled because they. as other refugees before them who have built this country. really rejuvenate and strengthen and bring new energy to this country. and it really is in the interest of our country that that continue. I say to my friend from Wyoming that these people are not from Taj Mahal. that these people are in those camps because they mostly cannot go back to the country from where they come. So I rise today. Mr. President. in support of Senator HATFiELDs Indochinese Refugee Resettlement Act of 1987 as an amendment to this State Department authorization bill. I am proud to say that I am an original cosponsor of this important and very necessary legislation. We in Minnesota. Mr. President. despite the fact that perhaps some would think it is a little out of the way. have a large population of Indochinese refugees. particularly of the Hmong and I believe in comments before I came to the floor my friend from Wyoming spoke about the Hmong and that they indeed have a difficult time in adjusting to their new country. and they do. And they do have a difficult time adjusting to the United States. But when they adjust. as we have found in Minnesota. where we have 20odd thousand Hmongs. they adjust and become really an essential part of the community. part of the building of the community. much in the way as Senator HATFIELD has mentioned in his response to Senator SIMPSON a little bit earlier.
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