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Refugee Levels
May Stay The Same

Washington (JTA) — With
the current instability in
Russia as a backdrop, the
United States has been con-
sidering how many refugees,
including Jews from the
former Soviet Union, to ad-
mit in fiscal year 1994.
Since 1989, the United
States has been admitting
tens of thousands of Soviet
Jews each year as refugees,
and advocates see the trend
remaining steady for 1994.
But there are hints from
the Clinton administration
that the program could be
phased out within the next
couple of years, a develop-
ment that would greatly
upset the Jewish commun-
ity.
Many Jewish groups re-
main concerned that the po-
litically and economically
unstable situation in the
former Soviet Union is con-
tinuing to result in persecu-
tion of Jews.
But some in the U.S.
government think that with
the fall of the Soviet Union,
there is little need for special
refugee programs for Jews
from that region.
President Clinton is ex-
pected to ask Congress
shortly to permit 55,000
refugees to arrive here from
the former Soviet Union and
Eastern Europe during the
1994 fiscal year, which
begins Oct. 1.
During the 1993 fiscal
year, Congress provided
funds for a maximum of
50,000 refugees from the
former Soviet Union and an-
other 1,500 from Eastern
Europe. The combined total
for 1994 would allow an ad-
ditional 3,500 refugees to
enter the country.
In the past, Jewish groups
have reached informal
agreements with the
government that a high
percentage of refugees from
the former Soviet Union will
be Jews.
In previous years, about 80
percent of the refugees have
been Jewish, and the
number is expected to re-
main about the same or drop
slightly if large numbers of
people fleeing Bosnia-
Herzegovina seek refuge in the
United States.
Martin Wenick, executive
vice president of the Hebrew
Immigrant Aid Society, one
of the key groups dealing
with Jewish refugees, said
last week that he expects the
number of Jews admitted

from the former Soviet
Union to stay at about
40,000, the same level as in
fiscal year 1993.
HIAS estimates that ap-
proximately 37,000 Jewish
refugees from the former
Soviet republics will have
immigrated here by the end
of the 1993 fiscal year. By
comparison, 47,750 arrived
in 1992 and 27,628 arrived
in 1991.
In testimony before House
and Senate committees last
week, administration offi-
cials and refugee advocates
discussed the often-touchy

Martin Wenick:
Focused on Bosnia.

questions surrounding both
current and future refugee
programs.
Currently, there are two
major refugee programs,
serving Southeast Asia and
the former Soviet Union,
which together account for
the bulk of the refugees ad-
mitted to the United States
each year.
The administration plans
to cut the Southeast Asia
program within a year and
hinted that it would like to
phase the Soviet program
out within a couple of years.
In testimony before the
Senate Judiciary Committee
last Thursday, Secretary of
State Warren Christopher
spoke cautiously of im-
provements in the Russian
political situation that could
result in changes in upcom-
ing years.
In response to a question
from Sen. Alan Simpson, R-
Wyo., Mr. Christopher said,
"The situation in the Soviet
Union is rapidly changing in
the direction of greater
freedom and less persecu-
tion."
"I would expect over the
next couple of years to have
quite a dramatic change" in
the refugee situation in the
former Soviet Union "if the

