[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 57 (Wednesday, May 11, 1994)]
[House]
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[Congressional Record: May 11, 1994]
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    CLINTON'S HAITIAN POLICY THREATENS ECONOMIC DISASTER FOR FLORIDA

  (Mr. MILLER of Florida asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MILLER of Florida. Madam Speaker, the Clinton administration's 
Haitian policy du jour has gone from bad to worse to unfathomable. 
First, hollow military threats, followed by tougher economic sanctions 
on the Haitian people. Now, the President wants to open the shores of 
Florida to Haiti's economic refugees.
  By expanding a failed policy of economic sanctions, we only increase 
misery and starvation among the Haitian people--and strengthen the 
hands of the military leaders. Now President Clinton has issued an open 
invitation of asylum to the Haitian people. The United States is not 
only encouraging a flotilla of Haitian refugees--we are forcing the 
Haitian people to come through an irrational and inhumane policy of 
economic sanctions.
  Florida is a State already suffering from the failed immigration 
policies of the Federal Government. Our hospitals, our schools, our 
prisons and our taxpayers are already overburdened by the flood of 
illegal immigrants. Florida, like the rest of the Nation, simply cannot 
afford another Clinton disaster.
  Hunger strikes and liberal pickets are no substitute for a 
consistent, well-reasoned foreign policy.

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