Speech #1000108792

I think this Congress has an obligation to face up to that question of how long are we going to tolerate a congressional leftwing foreign policy that coaches communism. as well as an official policy of the United States of America that is deliberately and systematically fighting with the freedom fighters to stop communism. and to make a democratized Nicaragua. Finally. when our friends on the left in their pleasant and pious way promise us that we can disband the freedom fighters. we can appease the Communists. we can trust Ortegas dictatorship. we can cut a deal. and we should ask them to be honest with the American people. It is my deepest hope that the President will instruct the Federal Emergency Management Administration to contact every mayor and every county commissioner. and ask them. in the two waves of refugees that are coming. how many they want to take. For example. the Speaker is from Fort Worth. a big city. Would Fort Worth like 20.000 or 30.000 refugees? All of us now in our lifetime have seen three waves of refugees. two from Central America. one from Southeast Asia. Those who are old enough have seen refugees from Eastern Europe. Seven thousand Polish refugees came after Solidarity crashed in 1981. Hundreds of thousands of Cubans came in the first wave after Castro took over. and in the second wave in There are hundreds of thousands of Laotians and Vietnames and Cambodians who came all the way across the Pacific. We have more El Salvadorans in southern California than in any city in El Salvador except the capital. and that is already. Now. let us assume that our Democratic friends succeed. that we betray the freedom fighters and let them die. or we say to them. "Oh. come to America." That means that in 1988 we should accept. at a minimum. 400.000 Nicaraguan refugees. After all. if we decide to betray freedom. we should not let them stay in Costa Rica. We should not let them stay in Honduras. We have a moral obligation to the people who we encouraged. Now. I have not heard a single member of the Democratic Party get up and say. "Im in favor of 400.000 refugees and my district will take its 25.000." because what they want is a policy of all promise and no payment. "Oh. everything will work out fine. Please trust us. We can trust the Communists.