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The humanitarian commitment to and refugees in the regions of their homelands put great pressure on the resources available for total refugee assistance programS. In fiscal year 1986, as the committee knows, all parts of the federal government have had to makde program reductions to conform to the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings legislation. AS 8 result of these across-the-board funding reductions, the department, with congressional concurrence, is this Year to shift over $9 million from admissions programs to high-priority relief requirements in Africa and Southeast Asia Thus, the need to reprogram is the primary reason for the actual admissions in fiscal year 1986 falling some 4,500 below the ceiling.
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The assistance requirements for refugees in Africa, for Afghans in Pakistan, for Cambodians in the Thai-Cambodian border and for other groups in Southeast Asia and elsewhere, remain substantial. Just a few weeks ago, the Red Cross informed us they were running out of money for their life-sustaining food and medical programS in Africa. President Reagan authorized a withdrawal from the Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund to help meet this deficit. that is a resource we Can draw on only in exceptional cases.
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In order to be able to meet these ongoing assistance requirements without impairing our admissions programs, it is absolutely essential that we be provided with adequare resources to do the job. And therefore, I was pleased that the House Appropriations Committee supported the full amount of the President's fiscal year 1987 request for the refugee program. I urge you and your colleagues to do the same.
FEDERAL NEWS SERVICE 202–347–1400
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SHULTZ TESTIMONY-9/16/86
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Mr. Chairman, it's with this perspective that I now turn to the refugee admissions ceilings that the President is recommending for fiscal year 1987, and you in the in the testmony a tabular representation, so I won't read it through. I should point out that this total is the same figure that the administration proposed for fiscal 1986, that is, 70,000.
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