Session #101 · 1989–91

Speech #1010033056

I would submit as important as this issue is it is my hope that the State Department will also take a broader look at how it can help rectify this problem. It was Eugene Dewey. who was a former Assistant Secretary of State and is now the Deputy U.N. High Commissioner for Refugee Affairs. who indicated recently that the Reagan administration back in 1982 did not do justice to the proposal by the Vietnamese at that time to fully settle the problem of those people placed in the reeducation camps. I am deeply concerned that some of the recent decisions by the State Department with respect to cutting back on the number of interviews being done each month in Vietnam under the ODP program could slow down the opportunities for those people who served lengthy sentences in these political reeducation camps to have a chance to come out of Vietnam. So again I want to congratulate my colleague. the gentleman from Virginia and at the same time make it clear that I believe that the State Department and our Government must do more in overcoming some of their concerns from a budgetary standpoint to see that this problem is addressed.
Keywords matched
Refugee

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Positive
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
100%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Humanitarian Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
ROBERT MRAZEK
Party
D
Chamber
H
State
NY
Gender
M
Date
1989-06-09
Speech ID
1010033056
Paragraph
#0
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