Mr. Chairman. some time ago. there was a story about a very high official of the United States visiting with a very high official. the highest. of the Peoples Republic of China. and they were talking about JacksonVanik. JacksonVanik relates to immigration issues. The story goes that we were querying the Chinese about whether Immigration was possible from their country. and they said. how many would you like? Would you like 5 million. 10 million. or 15 million Chinese a year? No problem. Mr. Chairman. now we have a very interesting kind of process underway today where some people are trying to suggest that refugee status should follow what is alleged to be. by a person. coercive abortion practices. Now. if that happens. I want to ask my colleagues. how many refugees do you think we will have in this country from China alone or from any place else that allegedly has these kind of activities. or which has them in some parts of their society? Do we expect to have 2 million. 3 million. 4 million? What is going to be the limit of the refugees we have coming in under that kind of situation? Mr. Chairman. I want to remind my colleagues about three very important points here. First. the provisions of this act that is before us today are consistent with the recommendations of the congressionally mandated U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform. Second. they place Congress in control of determining U.S. refugee policy. Currently. the administration. I will say. unilaterally sets the numbers with very minimal congressional input.
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