And I know what it will likely be. Hopefully. we will be able to get some breath of reality into the situation. To ensure that. there is a very simple thing. and the simple thing is a screening program. a casebycase screening. just exactly what was called for in the 1980 Refugee Act. and put it in Moscow or elsewhere to ensure that persons with criminal records are not entering our country as refugees under this discredited program because If this article is at all accurate. it is well apparent that this program requires the most careful scrutiny. I will be speaking on it from time to time. It will rise apparently like a Phoenix. as it does. and then you are not supposed to come and say anything against it because then you are against refugees. and you are really quite a foul fellow. and that is not who I am. But we are going to deal with that. We are going to deal with it realistically because you either are a refugee or you are an immigrant. And if you are a refugee. it will be a casebycase determination under the Refugee Act of 1980. And if you are really a refugee. can you really be one from the present Commonwealth of the Newly Independent States. the former Soviet Union. because these are our finest allies. our friends. It is like someone said to me the other day: What are we going to do with refugees from Mexico? I said if that is where the debate has gone. then everybody has rocks in their head or wax in their ears. There are no refugees from Mexico. How can one be a refugee from Mexico. a democracy. our remarkable neighbor to our south. So those are the twisted terms we get to play with in this particular arena. and I hope that we can at least for the American publics edification and clarity try to describe what those terms are and what a refugee really is. And it certainly cannot be presumed that there are 40.000 of them coming per year from the former Soviet Union. That makes no sense whatsoever.
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