Madam Speaker. it is a final solution to the Haitian problem by drowning people in the sea. and I can think of nothing worse. I can think of nothing more horrible. I can think of no act that our Government ever committed that I would be more ashamed of than to have the problem of Haitian refugees solved by letting them drown at sea. We have many alternatives of course. The numbers are not so great. We have absorbed many more refugees in the past than the 15.000 who at one time accumulated at Guantanamo. We can make room in a nation of more than 200 million people for a measly 25.000. 30.000. even 100.000 people. That is not the problem. We have absorbed many more Cubans. Some 400.000 Cubans were absorbed in a period of just a few years in Florida. We brought in many plane loads of Hungarian refugees. Thousands and thousands of people at particular times have been absorbed when we felt they were worthy of being saved. Madam Speaker. the message that we are getting from this administration is that in the new world order that we envisage certain people do not deserve to be saved.
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