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RECREATE MAGNET FOR BOAT DEPARTURES.ULTIMATELY WE BELIEVE IT IN OUR
SELF-INTEREST TO TRY TO RE-ORIENT USA FOCUS TO OTHER WORLD AREAS
PARTICULARLY GROWING ASYLUM CRISIS IN EUROPE.
2.REPORT:USA REFUGEE POLICY IN SOUTH EAST ASIA OVER THE PAST FEW
YEARS HAS BEEN DRIVEN BY THREE ESSENTIAL FACTORS: AN ADMIN POLICY TO-
WARDS VIETNAM WHICH IS ESSENTIALLY HOSTILE; SECONDLY, POWERFUL INTEREST
GROUPS WHICH EITHER SUPPORT THE PROGRAM AS A RESULT STRONG PERSONAL
COMMITMENT OF INSTITUTIONAL BENEFIT; AND FINALLY A GROWING CONGRES-
SIONAL DISILLUSIONMENT WITH PROGRAM IN THE FACE OF GROWING BUDGET
DEFICITS AND INCREASING EVIDENCE OF THE MIGRANT NATURE OF FLOW.
3.IN RESPONSE, ADMIN SOUGHT TO QUOTE MANAGE DOWN UNQUOTE THE PROGRAM
EY GRADUALLY REDUCING RESETTLEMENT NERS.SLIGHTLY RESTRICTING RESET-
TLEMENT ACCESS YET SUPPORTING FIRST ASYLUM.FAILURE OF THIS POLICY
BECAME EVIDENT IN 84/85 WITH THE GRAPHIC ILLUSTRATION OF MAGNET EF-
FECT WEEN PROCESSING IN NAPHO WAS BEGUN AND THE REALIZATION THAT DES-
PITE CAMP FOPS TOTALLING 150,000 THE USA WAS RUNNING OUT OF ELIGIBLE
PERSONS TO RESETTLE.CONTINUED RESETTLEMENT WOULD REQUIRE A MODIFIC-
ATION OF ACCESS WHICH WOULD ENCOURAGE FURTHER OUTFLOWS.FINALLY, CON-
GRESSIONAL REALIZATIONS THAT ACTION ON BUDGET DEFICIT WAS IMPERATIVE
SIGNALLED AN EVENTUAL SIGNIFICANT CUTBACK IN RESETTLEMENT MBRS.
4.IN FORMULATING A REVISED POLICY, AS OUTLINED IN PURCELLS SIX POINT
PROPOSAL(SEE JID REFTEL), WE BELIEVE ICG PROCESS HAS PLAYED AN IMPOR-
TANT ROLE.FIRST OF ALL IT (HOPEFULLY) WILL PROVDE AN INTERNATIONAL
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