We are not cutting anything in half. So I conclude thatI have no desire at all to talk about flooding the country. I am not a xenophobe. I do not spend any time in that. not a whit. All I am saying is we should not blanket people into the United States. Read the entire Ray reportthey are very thoughtful people. together. who did it. I think it is absurd to say that I am saying that all people who come from Thailand are not refugees. Many of them are. and we owe them an obligation. But we owe it on a casebycase basis and not some blanket process which distorts the Refugee Act and everything we have tried to do. There is no doubt in my mind either that the Hmong people served us beautifully in Laos in the most extraordinary way. I do not argue with that one whit. And they then if they did. are refugees. I simply ask this. And. as I say do not throw anything yet as I pose this question: Is it more humane to bring the Hmong to the United States of America where they may spend the rest of their lives whiling their time away on public assistancehear this carefully. or I will get hammered flatpublic assistance in a strange culture where notably they are those who have more refugee dependency rates than any other group? Or would it honestly be better. and this is what I am saying. for them to remain in Thailand while we seek voluntary and safe repatriation for these people or settlement in a place in Thailand where the entire local population is ethnically and culturally similar to the Hmong? Would the latter be better?
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Hmong people have higher refugee dependency rates than any other group.