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'ALLOCATIONS WITHIN THE CEILING FOR FY1982 WERE NOT TRANSFERABLE
TO THE FOLLOWING YEAR: AND THAT RECENT ETHNIC VIETNAMESE ARRIVALS, MANY OF WHOM HAD DECLARED THEMSELVES AS ECONOMIC REFUGEES, WERE
FOR THAT REASON UNACCEPTABLE TO THE INS.
(111) HOWEVER THERE WAS A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF INTEREST IN THE
**HARD CORE OF ETHNIC CHINESE, WHO MIGHT BE MORE EASILY
REPRESENTED TO CONGRESS AS GENUINE REFUGEES. CONCERNING THE
365 WHO ARRIVED ON THE SKYLUCK, OFFICIALS PRESENT ADMITTED
THAT THE OFFER OF TRANSPORT TO THE PHILIPPINES AT THE TIME HAD
BEEN LESS THAN SATISFACTORY. THE FORMER US REFUGEE COORDINATOR
IN HONG KONG, JERRY BROH-KAHN, HAD RECOMMENDED THAT, IF THESE
REFUGEES WERE NOW PREPARED TO TRAVEL TO THE PHILIPPINES FOR
ENGLISH LANGUAGE TRAINING, THEY SHOULD BE ACCEPTED FOR
RESETTLEMENT IN THE US. THEY ARE AWAITING BROH-KHAN'S RETURN
NEXT WEEK BEFORE DECIDING WHETHER TO PUT FORWARD THIS RECOMMENDATION WITHIN THE ADMINISTRATION. THE 2,400 WHO EXPRESSED
AN INTEREST IN GOING TO THE UK WERE A MORE DIFFICULT CASE. INS POLICY WAS THAT IF RESETTLEMENT HAD BEEN OFFERED ELSEWHERE, THEY WERE INELIGIBLE. FLATIN ASKED FOR MORE FACTS ABOUT THIS GROUP, INCLUDING WHETHER THEY HAD BEEN INTERVIEWED FOR RESETTLE- MENT IN THE UK, AND WHETHER AN OFFER HAD BEEN MADE TO THEM. WE THEN DISCUSSED THE REMAINDER OF THE HARDCORE. (COULD YOU PLEASE PROVIDE AN UP TH DATE FIGURE FOR THE TOTAL HARD CORE OF ETHNIC CHINESE, INCLUDING THE TWO GROUPS ABOVE). STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS ADMITTED THAT THIS GROUP HAD BEEN INFORTUNATE, IN THAT THEIR REPROCESSING IN THE EARLY STAGES HAD BEEN DELAYED BECAUSE THEY HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO WORK IN HONG KONG AND THE SITUATION ELSEWHERE IN SOUTH EAST ASIA WAS MUCH MORE URGENT. HE ALSO REVEALED THAT, ALTHOUGH US OFFICIALS HAD BEEN TOLD TO SUSPEND PROCESSING OF 4F CASES LAST AUTUMN, PENDING A DECISION TO TERMINATE RESETTLEMENT OF 4F REFUGEES (WHICH AS YOU KNOW TOOK EFFECT IN APRIL), THEIR PEOPLE IN HONG KONG WERE GIVEN DISCRETION AFTER LAST APRIL TO PROCEED WITH THE PROCESSING OF SOME OF THE 4FS WHO HAD ARRIVED PRIOR TO AUTUMN 1981. HOWEVER, THEIR PEOPLE ON THE SPOT HAD DECIDED NOT TO EXERCISE THAT DISCRETION, PRIMARILY BECAUSE OF THE RIOTS IN THE CAMPS (WHICH THEY DID NOT WISH TO APPEAR TO REWARD). THE OPPORTUNITY FOR SOME OF THESE TO BE RESETTLED DURING THE FINANCIAL YEAR 1982 HAD THEREFORE BEEN LOST. (COMMENT. THIS IS WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE AND YOU WILL NOT WISH TO TAX LOCAL US OFFICIALS WITH IT, BUT IT AT LEAST REVEALS A CERTAIN FLEXIBILITY IN THE MINDS OF STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS IN WASHINGTON).
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