[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 86 (Thursday, June 30, 1994)]
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  (Mr. GOSS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, the administration is now in crisis mode to 
cope with the explosion of refugees from Haiti. It is hard to fathom 
that the people responsible for leading the free world might be so 
naive, but amazingly, administration officials are scratching their 
heads, or at least pretending to, about why their misery-producing 
embargo is causing more Haitians to leave Haiti. This result was 
totally predictable and was predicted by those who know Haiti. Haitians 
are suffering and dying and the only hope they see is to head for a 
better life in the United States, an option, incidentally, that is 
looking more and more possible now under the new Clinton policy of 
winking at the rules for political asylum. Now the administration 
scrambles to develop contingency plans for the refugees: Jamaica, Turks 
and Caicos, Guantanamo Bay. What is next? What then? All signs point 
toward military intervention and more violence and misery. The current 
problems are a crisis of this administration's own making. Those 
innocent Haitians who do not starve or die of disease from the embargo, 
we are now going to put them in a war zone?
  Mr. Speaker, why am I hearing only silence from those liberals who 
call themselves human rights activists who support this Clinton fiasco?

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