Some antiCastro Cubans are barred. Afghans who fought with the Northern Alliance. and even the NATO soldiers who trained them. are barred. We never intended to do that. After 8 months of interagency inertia. the Secretary of State recently issued a waiver for one group of Burmese refugees who live in a refugee camp in Thailand. The use of the waiver authority was long overdue and I welcomed the Secretarys action. But the waiver was too limited. and will help only a minority of those deserving help. who are waiting to be resettled here. When the waiver was issued. the State Department asserted that it did not plan to extend it to other groups in the near future.
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