Y4.589/2:5.hrg. 101-1251

S. HRG. 101-1251

U.S. REFUGEE PROGRAMS FOR 1991

HEARING

BEFORE THE

COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY
UNITED STATES SENATE

ONE HUNDRED FIRST CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

ON

THE PROPOSED U.S. REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT ADMISSIONS PROGRAM
FOR FISCAL YEAR 1991

OCTOBER 3, 1990

Serial No. J-101-96

41-228

Printed for the use of the Committee on the Judiciary

For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Congressional Sales Office
U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402

COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY

JOSEPH R. BIDEN, JR., Delaware, Chairman

RONALD A. KLAIN, Chief Counsel

DIANA HUFFMAN, Staff Director
JEFFREY J. PECK, General Counsel

TERRY L. WOOTEN, Minority Chief Counsel and Staff Director

CONTENTS

STATEMENTS OF COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Kennedy, Hon. Edward M., a U.S. Senator from the State of Massachusetts.....

Thurmond, Hon. Strom, a U.S. Senator from the State of South Carolina..........

DeConcini, Hon. Dennis, a U.S. Senator from the State of Arizona.....

Simpson, Hon. Alan K., a U.S. Senator from the State of Wyoming
Grassley, Hon. Charles E., a U.S. Senator from the State of Iowa

CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF WITNESSES

Panel consisting of Hon. Lawrence S. Eagleburger, Deputy Secretary of State,

U.S. Department of Justice; James H. Hall, Acting U.S. Coordinator for

Refugee Affairs; Gene McNary, Commissioner, U.S. Immigration and Natu-

ralization Service, accompanied by Ambassador Princeton N. Lyman, Direc-

tor, Bureau for Refugee Programs, U.S. Department of State; and Chris

Gersten, Director, Office of Refugee Resettlement, Department of Health

and Human Services.....

ALPHABETICAL LIST AND MATERIAL SUBMITTED

DeConcini, Hon. Dennis:

"Contradictions in Asylum Tape-Workers Advised To Go With U.S.

Policy," article by Robert Kahn, from the San Francisco Chronicle,

June 30, 1990.

Eagleburger, Hon. Lawrence S.:

Page

1

2, 4

6, 7

16

98

13

Testimony

Prepared statement

Gersten, Chris:

Prepared statement

12

13

20

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92

38

39

56

58

APPENDIX

Presidential Determination No. 91-3 of October 12, 1990; reprint from the

Federal Register, vol. 55, No. 201, Oct. 17, 1990/Presidential Documents .......

Letters to the President, the White House, from:

Senators Biden and Kennedy, Sept. 20, 1990..

Senators Thurmond and Simpson, Oct. 4, 1990.

101

103

105

Letter to Senator Kennedy from Jewel Lafontant-Mankarious, U.S. Coordina-

tor for Refugee Affairs, Washington, DC, Sept. 27, 1990.....

Letter from Robert P. DeVecchi, Chair, Committee on Migration and Refugee

Affairs, Sept. 5, 1990..

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Attachment: Comments and Recommendation of the Voluntary Agencies

Active in Refugee Resettlement Through the Committee on Migration

and Refugee Affairs of Interaction Concerning Refugee Admissions for

Fiscal Year 1991