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to allow them to stay even temporarily. In some cases refugees
traveling in small ill -equipped fishing craft have literally been pushed
back into the sea to find refuge elsewhere. Others who have been picked
up by commercial vessels find they are not allowed to disembark, which
results in the ship being detained while immigration officials try to
resolve the matter. As a result, ship captains now are often passing
up the refugee small boats, even when they are disabled, The news
accounts at Tabs G and H provide details on some of these cases,
including the following:
"22 Vietnamese refugees were plucked from their sinking craft
only after they had been passed up by five ships.
'Fifty-seven refugees picked up by a Japanese tanker were turned
away by both Bangkok and Singapore before they were finally given
temporary shelter in Japan.
"Thirty-ond refugees are still believed on board a Panamanian
freighter after Singapore refused them entry.
'Indonesian authorities pushed a small boat containing women
and small child ren back out to sea. It soon began breaking up, and
the people were rescued only through the efforts of an Australian captain
who seeing their plight followed them from the Indonesian port.
Other boats are known to have sunk at sea with all aboard perishing.
The State Department and the United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees (UNHCR) initially had some success in getting these countries
to
allow refugees to land temporarily, but only by assuring them that
permanent resettlement sites would be found for the refugees in other
countries. The U.S. was able to accept 500 of these "boat case" people
within the 11, 000 spaces available in our Expanded Parole Program.
Unfortunately, all of the other numbers were used up in assisting refugees
already in camps in Thailand and so we have no ability to "parole" them.
As a result, the countries are once again closing their doors. Singapore,
for example, may be preparing to force a party of 20, including 4 women
and 4 small children back out to sea (Tab I).
To try to assist these unfortunate people, State proposed (Tab B) that
INS make available 100 spaces per month within its Conditional Entry
Program under which INS admits 10, 200 refugees fleeing Communism
FORD
CONFIDENTIAL
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