I thank the gentleman for yielding. I do not mean to turn this into an intellectual argument. but an intellectual argument sometimes serves the basis for policy. and I realize we are talking about people here. But it seems to me what the gentleman has just described is a political problem in the island. a freely elected democratic government having been removed. the administration making a decision of a political solution to a political problem. that is. a limited. ineffective embargo which causes the people of the island to flee the political situation. And then we deny them admission to this country because we say they are not a political refugees. they are really economic refugees. It seems to me almost by definition in the manner in which the administration has handled it they have established the legitimate political refugees status of the Haitians that they will not now even let get off the boat at Guantanamo. if they are even able to get across the ocean. and it is incorrigible or incomprehensible that logic cannot drive a policy down there. but politics drives it. but they will not realize the political nature of the refugee situation.
Keywords matched
refugee refugees