[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 64 (Friday, May 20, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: May 20, 1994]
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              THE ADMINISTRATION'S BIZARRE HAITIAN POLICY

  (Mr. MICA asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MICA. Mr. Speaker, each chapter of this administration's policy 
toward Haiti is more and more bizarre.
  As a Congressman from Florida, I keep thinking it cannot get any 
worse.
  Floridians have footed the bill for illegal Haitians, legal Haitians, 
HIV-infected Haitians, economic refugee Haitians, and asylum-seeking 
Haitians.
  The Florida taxpayer has picked up the tab for failed Federal policy, 
changed Federal policy, and no Federal policy.
  To underwrite this nightmare the people of Florida have anted up for 
welfare, food stamps, education, housing, incarceration, 
transportation, and hospitalization.
  Now, most outrageously, Floridians and United States taxpayers will 
pay thousands of their hard-earned dollars to charter foreign cruise 
ships to process the new flood of Haitians at sea.
  While we debate mothballing our navy, the White House is paying for 
foreign cruise ships. What further insult can we add to an already 
injured American taxpayer?

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