There Is tremendous prejudice in the former Soviet Union. please hear that. It is also a fact that there is prejudice in this country. I do not dispute that fact either. and no one else can. but simple prejudice does not make a person here or in the former Soviet Union a refugee. Refugees are persons fleeing official political persecution. They are not fleeing discrimination. Now my colleagues should know that the categories under the Lautenberg amendment. which receive a special lower adjudication standard. was established in 1989 when there was a clear history of religious persecution by the Communist Soviet State apparatus.
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