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[Congressional Record: October 28, 2000 (Extensions)]
[Page E1989]
From the Congressional Record Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:cr28oc00-72]
FOR THE RELIEF OF PERSIAN GULF EVACUEES
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speech of
HON. SHEILA JACKSON-LEE
of texas
in the house of representatives
Tuesday, October 24, 2000
Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of a bill
that unanimously passed the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims and
our Full committee. This private relief bill on behalf of 54 families
and individuals seeking permanent resident status in the United States
has much merit.
These families, known as Persian Gulf evacuees, have lived and worked
in this country being evacuated out of Kuwait, at the behest of the
United States government, just prior to U.S. Military Intervention in
the Iraqi invasion of that country.
Many of these individuals, by order of then President Bush, were
evacuated to keep them out of harms way when the United States
intervened militarily in Kuwait, and hid them in their homes against
Iraqi retaliation. Once here, the majority of the 2,000 evacuees
adjusted their own status, often through asylum procedures. These 54
families remained in limbo, facing deportation and loss of work permits
in the United States.
The Persian Gulf evacuees, are well educated, English speaking,
mostly professional individuals perfectly capable of working and
supporting themselves here in the United States without becoming wards
of any State in which they have settled.
This action is good for this Congress and for America, and I support
its passage.
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