I urge the administration to drop its appeal to the Supreme Court of this decision and to search. instead. for a creative alternative to the present policy and to drop the present policy. This would honor the American tradition of providing refuge to the oppressed and of providing due process for all. The district I represent in Manhattan and Brooklyn in New York is home to refugees from many oppressed regimes. including those of czarist Russia and the Soviet Union. Nazi Germany. Syria. Iran. the Peoples Republic of China. and others. Indeed. my predecessor in Congress. the late Ted Weiss. came to this country as a refugee from Hungary in 1938. As my colleagues might imagine. the people of my district are strong believers in the American tradition of providing refuge to the oppressed. as am I. Our current policy reminds me of the shameful policy pursued by our Government and by the governments of many countries in Europe in the late 1930s. of denying refuge to many refugees fleeing Nazi tyranny and sending them back to their deaths. ultimately. in Nazi death camps. It is a policy unworthy of our traditions. unworthy of this country. I hope to see a policy with respect to refugees from Haiti that is in keeping with the traditions of the democratic traditions of the United States.
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