[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 119 (Saturday, August 20, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 20, 1994]
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               A WELCOME CHANGE IN OUR POLICY TOWARD CUBA

  (Mrs. MEEK of Florida asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. MEEK of Florida. Mr. Speaker, the President of the United States 
made a bold, venturesome, and courageous move to stop the influx of 
immigrants into this country. He will be criticized for it, but our 
resources are now so extended until they are almost fragile.
  It is very obvious that the Cubans that are trying to get to this 
country are coming here trying to get relief out of the yoke of Castro. 
Castro is now trying very hard to dictate the immigration policies of 
our country. Our President and the people of Florida said, ``No more of 
that.''
  We must go even further than that. Not only must we stop the influx 
of people almost killing themselves, being drowned in the Florida 
Straits, but we must also do other things, other measures to stop 
Castro. Such measures, perhaps, as to strengthen the embargo as well as 
to perhaps, in the end, placing a blockade around Cuba so that Castro 
will get the message that this country is the land of the free and the 
home of the brave, but it is not for Castro's relief.

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