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Mr. Chairman, distinguished members of the Committee, I want to thank you for the invitation and the honor to consult with you on the President's proposed refugee admissions ceiling for fiscal year 1987. After thoughtful consideration, the President proposes an overall admission ceiling of 70,000 refugees, with 66,000 to be included in funded regional ceilings and 4.000 to be contained in an unfunded reser vê, unallocated by any region.
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This year's admission proposal includes: President's initiatives on Amerasians and Vietnamese political prisoners; an admissions level to maintain continued high processing
from the refugee camps in the Southeast Asian first asylum countries; an increased admissions ceiling for Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union; expanded refugee admissions from Latin American and the Caribbean; an increased ceiling for Africa,
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accommodate African refugees located far from processing posts in Africa, and those who have been stranded in Europe for several years; an increased admissions ceiling for the Near East and Soth Asia to allow
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admissions of those fleeing religious persecution and Soviet occupation; and an unallocated reserve intended to give the administration the flexibility to respond to critical admissions needs that are unpredictable.
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Mr. Chairman, during the six years of this administration, expenditures for refugee aid admimistered by the State Department have exceed $2.5 billion. In that time, More than 500,000 refugees have been admitted into the United States. America has done its share and more to aid those refugees who have been forced to Leave their homelands because of persecution.
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an historic tradition for the American people to respond to refugee problems. An integral part of that tradition has been our Leadership in advancing an international, multilateral approach to