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benefit from the hospitality offered by neighboring nations.
Those in need of resettlement outside of Africa are refugees in
life-threatening situations or refugees who cannot easily be
assimilated
Africans.
for example, urban Ethiopians and some South
For FY 1987, we are proposing an admissions ceiling of
3,500.
This will allow us to process those refugees who cannot
be resettled elsewhere, as well as a limited number of African
refugees currently in first asylum in Europe.
Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union
Unfortunately, the number of individuals who are granted
permission to depart the Soviet Union has continued to decline
in the past year. We continue to press for freer emigration
from the Soviet Union and have adjusted our admission ceiling
accordingly. The President raised this issue with Chairman
Gorbachev in Geneva, and I intend to do the same with the
Soviet Foreign Minister whenever we meet.
We anticipate that the requested 10,000 admissions will
allow us to process not only the hoped for increase from the
Soviet Union, but also those Romanians registered for the Third
Country Processing program, as well as the regular flow of
refugees who continue to arrive from Eastern Europe.