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Mr. Chairman and distinguished members of the Committee,
thank you for the invitation and the honor to consult with you
on the President's proposed refugee admissions ceiling for
fiscal year 1987.
This is the third consecutive year that I have participated
in these consultations. These sessions were envisaged by the
Congress in the Refugee Act of 1980, which specified that our
refugee admissions are intended for refugees of "special
humanitarian concern to the United States in accordance with a
determination made by the President after appropriate
consultation with the Congress."
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taking into
Mr. Chairman, after thoughtful consideration
account the resettlement needs of refugees of special
humanitarian concern to us the President proposes an overall
admissions ceiling of 70,000 refugees, with 66,000 to be
included in funded regional ceilings and 4,000 to be contained
in an unfunded reserve, unallocated by any region.
admissions proposal includes:
This year's
reaffirmation of the President's initiatives on
Amerasians and Vietnamese political prisoners;
an admissions level to maintain continued high
processing levels from the refugee camps in the Southeast
Asian first asylum countries;
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