Instead they have forced these leaders to flee their country to escape arrest and death. The United States Senate has often spoken in support of those brave Burmese democracy leaders. We have withheld aid and weapons to the military regime. and have provided some. albeit modest amounts. of assistance to the Burmese refugees who have fled the ruthless SLORC. Prodemocracy demonstrators were particularly vulnerable. yet having fled the country they found themselves denied political asylum by Western governments. In 1989. Senator KENNEDY and I rose in support of the demonstrators and won passage of an amendment to the Immigration Act of 1990 requiring the Secretary of State and the Attorney General to clearly define the immigration policy of the United States toward Burmese prodemocracy demonstrators. Congress acted again on the Customs and Trade Act of 1990 to adopt a provision I introduced requiring the President to impose appropriate economic sanctions on Burma. The Bush administration utilized this provision to sanction Burmese textiles.
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