This is a very thoughtful. very careful. very well structured piece of legislation. What it says is that we continue to be a country which prides itself on offering refuge to people who are beleaguered. oppressed. and endangered. The gentleman from New York . who is the ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee and a very experienced Member in terms of immigration matters. pointed out that there is no existing category into which all these people fit. My own view is that the administration. had it wanted to. could have done more to accommodate some of these people. Ideally. we did try in the earlier part of the eighties and before to get Congress out of making specific decisions on countries and leave it all to the administration.
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