Mr. CONYERS. says something that I absolutely agree with. We should treat the Haitian refugees no different than we treat other refugees. That. frankly. is what we are doing in this bill. Actually we are treating them fairer than we treat most other refugees. in a different way. As a matter of fact. we are treating them better in the process the Government is going right now at Guantanamo than we treat most refugees. They are being treated as asylees under the administrations procedures. and that is what they would be treated as if this bill were passed. That is. they are being given the opportunity. if they have a plausible claim for reasonable fear of persecution if they are sent back home. which is our Refugee Act status and our asylum status. they are being given the right to come into this country and being paroled into this country and go before an immigration judge to have their case heard and to argue their point. That is different. In a sense. that is better for them. in that sense of difference. It is a thing most refugees do not get. Most refugees we look at around the world. before we decide to bring them in here. are screened completely by the State Department. never see an immigration judge. never set foot in this country until that decision is fully made and adjudicated. So in that sense they are being treated better. But they are not being treated any differently in any discriminatory fashion.
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