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Found this in my local newspaper---------------Kennedy calls for higher limits----------- Citing American humanitartan obligations,Sen Edward M. Kennedy urged the Bush administration to increse refugee admissins for 2003 aboved 70,000 level. Kennedy,D-Mass. , comented in a statement after he discussed refugee admissions with Secretary of the Senate Colin Powell. Kennedy is a member of the Judiciary Committee,which monitors refugee policy. Powell also met with members of the House Judiciary Committee. Although the adminisstration had recommended that 70,000 refugees be admitted during the 2002 year only 27,000 refuees were actually admitted,partially because of bottlenecks caused by more stringent security requirements imposed after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. There also was a sharp drop in the number of refugees admitted from Afghanistan. Many Afgans slated for resettlement in the United States instead were able to safely return to their country after the U. S. forces drove the Taliban rulers from power last November. Kennedy said the administration " MUST find ways to restore refugee admission levels and idenitify the most vulnerable refugee populations. " Another problem ,he said, is that the goverment often does not reach its - admissions target - A combined total of 106,000 refugees could have been admitted over the past decade but weren't,he said. A State Department paper on proposed 2003 admissions said that ,in addition to new security requirements,the total for 2002 was brought down by fraud or misrepresentation. ------------ Now I was just wondering, was those terrorist that flew those planes into the twin towers classified as refugees????????????????
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