President Reagan when he came into office. was in office a couple of years. and some of us reported to him from our visits over there that this was a major problem. that indeed the standards being used to screen in were not allowing those to come in who had been those who had assisted us during the war. who were truly people who have credible fears of persecution. And so on and so forth. So in light of that. in 1983 President Reagan adopted a command performance. if you will. from our Immigration and Naturalization Service and the State Department. for how we were going to handle the screenings of refugees to come in from over in that part of the world. That series of standard criteria. if you will. were later adopted into statute in what is known as the Lautenberg amendment. It is those criteria which the gentleman from New Jersey has offered and put in the bill which is underlying this today and which we are trying to defend on this side. and I must reluctantly oppose my good friend. the gentleman from Nebraska . because he wants to strike that more liberal standard. if you will.
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