Vietnam. the administration. NGOs. and Members of Congress to work out a pragmatic solution to the current impasse. The question we are now facing is how to get the 40.000 plus screened out asylum seekers to return voluntarily to Vietnam. While this Member does not have a concrete solution to offer at this time. it seems that some system of reinterviewing asylum seekers after their return to Vietnam could offer an incentive for the boat people to return. while at the same time maintain the international consensus on this issue. Mr. Speaker. this Member pledges his support for efforts to devise concrete and pragmatic solutions to this intractable humanitarian problem which the House by its unfortunate action helped to create.
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