I also support the Smith amendment. Mr. Chairman. and I would like to say how proud I am to be involved with a movement that would allow boat people to be treated as the refugees that they really are. There are thousands of these refugees lingering in miserable camps throughout Southeast Asia. waiting for freedom. I think we need to stand by our former allies and make sure that they are treated as the refugees they are. Mr. Chairman. I remember a few years back refugees were forced out of the camps in Hong Kong. and a number of refugees committed suicide rather than return to the Communist regimes from which they fled. Mere economic refugees do not commit suicide when faced with repatriation. Mr. Chairman.
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Mere economic refugees do not commit suicide when faced with repatriation.