Session #101 · 1989–91

Speech #1010118127

Mr. President. dramatic and historic changes in United States refugee policies concerning Soviet refugees greeted fiscal year 1990. This is the year the doors to Soviet emigration opened and the doors to the United States closed. When the administration r inounced the new U.S. refugee policies on September 18. Congress had only 15 days notice of the very serious changes in our refugee policies. There were* a myriad of unanswered questions and unaddressed issues. and still today the same questions remain unanswered and issues unaddressed. Therefore. in conjunction with the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews. I have established the Moscow monitor project wherein the preeminent Soviet refusnik.
Keywords matched
emigration refugee refugees

Classification

Target group
Also mentioned
Soviet Jews
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
100%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
CHARLES GRASSLEY
Party
R
Chamber
S
State
IA
Gender
M
Date
1990-01-24
Speech ID
1010118127
Paragraph
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