Excerpt from Refugee Act of 1980 Amendment: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees, and International Law of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-Seventh Congress, First Session on H. R. 2142 Refugee Act of 1980 Amendment, March 24, 1981 The subcommittee met at 9:36 a.m. in room 2237 of the Rayburn House Office Building; Hon. Romano Mazzoli (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Representatives Mazzoli, Hall, Schroeder, Frank, Fish, Lungren, and McCollum. Staff present: Garner J. Cline and Arthur P. Endres, Jr., counsel; Harris N. Miller, legislative assistant; and Eugene Pugliese, assistant counsel. Mr. Mazzoli. The committee will come to order. This hearing has been called to consider a bill sponsored by Mr. George Danielson, a member of the full Judiciary Committee and Mr. Lungren, who is a member of this subcommittee. Both of the authors have monitored closely our refugee program and were instrumental in the drafting of the funding provisions contained in the Refugee Act of 1980. Regrettably, that act, which was signed into law 1 year ago, has failed to reduce welfare dependency among refugees. This was one of its primary objectives. In fact, just the opposite has occurred. Dependency rates have increased, and today almost 50 percent of the refugees in this country are receiving cash and medical assistance. This situation is unacceptable. All parties involved in the refugee resettlement effort - Federal, State, and local governments, resettlement agencies, and mutual assistance associations must join together to place refugees on the road to self-sufficiency. Yet, executive branch reports required under the Refugee Act have not been submitted to Congress; State reports have not been filed in a timely fashion; and, the detailed regulations called for by the Refugee Act have yet to be promulgated. The high dependency rates of refugees seriously concern Members of Congress no less than the government officials in those States which contain large concentrations of refugees. Just as the United States has shouldered a major part of the worldwide resettlement burden for Indochinese refugees, California has borne a large share of the U.S. resettlement burden. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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