[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 117 (Thursday, August 18, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 18, 1994]
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                    IMMIGRATION EMERGENCY WITH CUBA

  (Mr. MAZZOLI asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MAZZOLI. Mr. Speaker, the United States is facing an immigration 
emergency. The immigration emergency which now we face is with respect 
to Cuba. We had a briefing of our Subcommittee on International Law, 
Immigration, and Refugees, at our request, yesterday regarding the 
preparations that we are making in the United States to deal with this 
immigration emergency.
  I might say that something like 6,000 Cubans have already come to the 
United States this year, compared to 3,000 last year, 1,000 already in 
August which is only half over, and as many as 500 are coming a day.
  I am pleased to know the administration has a kind of broad plan to 
deal with the emergency, but it is impossible to deal effectively with 
the emergency, Mr. Speaker, so long as the 1966 Cuban Adjustment Act 
remains on the Statute books. The act allows Cubans, unlike any people 
in the world, to come to the United States, even for economic reasons, 
and be resettled and eventually get their citizenship. I think the 
President ought to examine some way by Executive order to suspend some 
applications of the Cuban Adjustment Act.
  I might also remind everyone, Mr. Speaker, that there is nothing in 
the Cuban Adjustment Act which prevents interdiction of Cubans as we do 
with Haitians. I think it also should be considered in interdicting 
Cubans that they be landed in places other than the United States to 
avoid triggering the Cuban Adjustment Act as we await other 
administration decisions on how to deal with this immigration 
emergency.

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