Mr. Chairman. I move to expectations and making a shambles of strike the last word. what an orderly refugee process is sup- Mr. Chairman. I rise in support of the posed to be. Smith amendment. I do not favor forcing a single refugee Mr. Chairman. many of the Vietnamback into their original country if they ese boat people and Hmong asylum do not want to go. I believe even in the seekers in Southeast Asia are facing case of refugees who have initially de- imminent deportation to communist termined they want to go back to their Vietnam and Laos. Many of them have country of origin. that in the case of been severely persecuted because of the Hmong. which is the one case I their U.S. ties during the war or beknow pretty intimately. it seems to me cause of their political or religious bethey ought to be given a chance to liefs. However. many of them have been change their minds so that there can unfairly denied refugee status by local be no doubt that the United States is governments under a screening pronot forcibly repatriating a single refu- gram established by the United Nagee. tions High Commissioner for Refugees I did my graduate thesis on Oper- and heavily funded by the U.S. Governation Keelhaul. I am very familiar with ment.
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