I have been in this issue now my entire time in the U.S. Senate. I have had all the opprobrium and heavy language you can take on when you deal with immigration and refugee issues--xenophobia. harshness. Whatever happened to the Statue of Liberty? So far we have managed to wind our way through those extremes because we have a refugee act which I was very proud to support when I came to this place which was sponsored by Senator KENNEDY of Massachusetts. my friend. Senator KENNEDY set the tone for the compassionate bill in the 1980 act. and this bill. unfortunately. did not adhere to that as it should in my mind. We adopted the definition of refugee in 1980. We recognize that. We adopted the international definition of refugee. Instead. we have agreed with most of the Western World to offer refugee status. Here is what we have done. Here is what the law reads.
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