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first and with your experience, would you comment on the expectation of refugees generally, because it seems to me that their image of the United States as a haven of great opportunity and relief may be out of proportion to the opportunities that are waiting for them there, and whether you exercise any influence on them to persuade them to not always make the United States their first choice?
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MR. HARTLING:
Let me answer your philosophical
question with a little anecdote, that I was a couple of years ago in a refugee camp, it was not here
but in another country
in the neighbourhood.
"Why would you like to go to the United States?" And they said -
the two or three people I talked with they said: "That is the only country we know about!" And I said, "Is that really so?" Now they say they are changing now, and now we have at least
eighteen countries where we would like to go, because we have
come to know some of them. The rescue-at-sea operation, which
is another helping operation, so-called RSRO- Rescue at Sea
Resettlement Operation, we have running here. Sometimes. we leave them to go to other countries. I know of some refugees saying
that, "After the way we were treated on that ship, we would like
to go to that country, because those people are so kind and helpful." So the United States was I think, the only one in
the minds of many refugees; it is different now but still the United States that is no wonder, they took 175,000 immediately after the war in '75 and they have taken a good lot after that
to their great credit, but each time then there are relatives. So
it is no wonder that many people like to join their relatives, exactly where the big number is.
I met some refugees and I said to them,
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The ultimately last question, please!
Do you think that Hong Kong has
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JIM BIDDULPH:
suffered from it's own kindness? I mean, last year for example
there were more refugees accepted for resettlement from Malaysia
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