Johnson. and Nixon collectively allowed approximately 600.000 Cubans to be paroled into the country. and Presidents Ford and Carter paroled approximately 300.000 Indochinese from Vietnam. Cambodia. and Laos. In response to a concern that the parole power was being used to admit large numbers of persons not covered by international refugee laws. Congress enacted the Refugee Act in 1980. which amended the INA to provide a process for the admission of refugees. The act also limited the administrations ability to parole refugees into the country. absent compelling reasons in the public interest. but left untouched the general parole authority. Nevertheless. several Presidents subsequently used the parole authority to allow the entry of groups of persons who arguably could have been considered "refugee populations." President George Herbert Walker Bush in 1989 created a program that allowed individuals in Vietnam who were ineligible for refugee status to enter the country as "public interest parolees." if they were able to prepay their travel expenses and provide affidavits of support from sponsors in the United States. In 1996. President Bill Clinton paroled approximately 7.000 Iraqi Kurds to Guam and allowed them to apply for asylum to the United States.
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