S. HRG. 102-1048 U.S. REFUGEE PROGRAM FOR 1993: HEARING BEFORE THE APR -6 1993 COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY UNITED STATES SENATE ONE HUNDRED SECOND CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON THE RECOMMENDATION OF THE ADMINISTRATION CONCERNING THE 60-250 JULY 23, 1992 Serial No. J-102-74 Printed for the use of the Committee on the Judiciary U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON 1993 For sale by the U.S. Government Printing Office Superintendent of Documents, Congressional Sales Office, Washington, DC 20402 ISBN 0-16-040236-0 COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY JOSEPH R. BIDEN, JR., Delaware, Chairman EDWARD M. KENNEDY, Massachusetts STROM THURMOND, South Carolina ALAN K. SIMPSON, Wyoming RONALD A. KLAIN, Chief Counsel THADDEUS E. STROM, Minority Chief Counsel and Staff Director (II) 93-241945 CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF WITNESSES Panel consisting of: Hon. Lawrence S. Eagleburger, Acting Secretary of State, accompanied by Ambassador Jewel Lafontant-Mankarious, U.S. Coordina- tor for Refugee Affairs; Ambassador Warren Zimmermann, Director, Bureau of Refugee Programs, Department of State; Gene McNary, Commis- sioner, Immigration and Naturalization Service; and Donna Givens, Princi- pal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Administration for Children and Families, 13 24 Letter to President Bush from committee members regarding funding for Letter to Hon. Lawrence Eagleburger from Senator Kennedy expressing con- Letter to Senator Kennedy from Ambassador Lafontant-Mankarious regard- 78 80 82 84 88 Hon. Lawrence S. Eagleburger. 134, 152, 178, 197 (III) 13 American Council for Voluntary International Action: Statement of the private volunteer refugee resettlement agencies of the White House memorandum, dated October 2, 1992, regarding determination Page 234 236 243 251 U.S. REFUGEE PROGRAM FOR 1993: THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1992 UNITED STATES SENATE, COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY, Washington, DC. The committee met, pursuant to notice, at 10:07 a.m., in room SD-226, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Edward M. Kennedy presiding. Present: Senators Kennedy, DeConcini, Simon, Simpson, and Grassley. Staff present: Jerry M. Tinker, staff director, Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Affairs; Michael Myers, counsel; Richard Day, minority chief counsel; and Cordia Strom, minority counsel. OPENING STATEMENT Senator KENNEDY. We will come to order. As we do each year, the committee meets today to review worldwide refugee programs and to set, under the terms of the Refugee Act of 1980, the number of refugees to be admitted to the U.S. during the coming year. Despite the end of the cold war, we meet at a time when the plight and the needs of refugees have rarely been greater. Recently, I met with Ms. Ogata, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. She expressed her deep disappointment over what she had hoped would be a decade of repatriation had now turned into prolonged movements of new refugees. As we all know, the end of the cold war has created new instability in which regional disputes and ethnic confrontations have created large numbers of additional refugees. There are now some 16 to 17 million refugees around the world. Every day, 5,000 refugees go home, but another 10,000 new refugees are created as conflicts continue in Yugoslavia, Somalia, Burma, and elsewhere. Europe itself is the scene of 2 million new refugees-men, women, and children fleeing indiscriminate shelling of their cities and towns in Yugoslavia, in a time of killing and devastation not seen since World War II. The swift Allied military victory in Kuwait last year has nonetheless left millions of refugees in its wake-stateless Palestinians, Iraqis in Saudi Arabia, and millions of refugees and dislocated Kurds in northern Iraq. The challenges today are great, but so are our means to meet them. We have an unprecedented opportunity to address refugee problems more effectively and with greater international coopera (1) |