APPENDIX I Report to the Congress Proposed Refugee Admissions and Allocations in Accordance with the Refugee Act of 1980 April 15, 1980 Prepared by the Office of the U.S. Coordinator for Refugee Affairs in cooperation with the Departments of State, Justice, Labor, and Health, Education and Welfare, and the Office of Management and Budget UNITED STATES COORDINATOR WASHINGTON, D. C. 20520 April 16, 1980 Dear Mr. Chairman: The President has asked me to initiate the consultation process required in the Refugee Act of 1980 on refugee admissions levels and allocations for Fiscal Year 1980. In anticipation of Secretary Vance's appearance before your Committee on April 17, I am pleased to transmit the information required by the Act on the Administration's proposal to admit up to 231,700 refugees for permanent resettlement in the United States during Fiscal Year 1980. This projected level of admissions includes the up to 3,500 Cubans about whom telephonic consultations were undertaken with an appropriate member of your staff last week, while the Congress was in recess. Included in this package is a short appendix analyzing the conditions at the Peruvian Embassy in Havana which led to our decision to engage in emergency group admissions consultations in the event we had to move some of the Cubans to the United States before Congress reconvened. Secretary Vance and I look forward to providing you with additional information on this issue as part of the consultations process. Following the completion of the consultations, I will report back to the President with the views of the Committee concerning these proposals before he issues his final determination on the admissions levels and allocations for this year. SUMMARY The attached report has been prepared for the Committees on the Judiciary of the House and the Senate in compliance with the requirements of the Refugee Act of 1980. The Act requires that the Committees be provided with information on the six areas of concern as follows: (1) Nature of the Refugee Situation During the past year, there have been significant increases in the numbers of refugees and displaced persons throughout the world, with estimates as high as 14 million. Although some crises are short lived because refugees are repatriated or resettled in place, situations in Southeast Asia, the Horn of Africa and Afghanistan suggest an ominous trend toward massive and long-term refugee problems. Large numbers of refugees impose economic and political strains on countries of first asylum and are a threat to peace in their respective regions. (2) Number and Allocation of Refugee Admissions The proposed number and allocation of refugees to be admitted to the United States during Fiscal Year 1980 is as follows: |