Madam President. the purpose of this amendment is to go back to the 1980 Refugee Act. The 1980 Refugee Act provided for casebycase determination of all refugees. In 1989. we had the Lautenberg amendment. which was very appropriate at that time. It simply said we would presume that people who were Jewish or Angelical Christians or Pentacostals would be refugees. That was appropriate when the Soviet Union was our enemy. In this bill. we give them S640 million. They are a G7 partner. They are our ally. Now we are still using 48.000 precious numbers out of an entire number of 78.000 to give to people who are presumed to be refugeeswe give them the status. Some of them wait a year before they even come. Then we find it being misused by fraud and abuse with the Russian mafia coming through the system with regard to this presumption of refugee status. We ought to go back to case by case. and no one will be left out.
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