Number of Refugees Admitted to the USUncovering Revisions

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Lisa BortenDanielle Manri

Alison MirabellaLIS 203Division of Library and Information Science

Project Overview

The Refugee Act of 1980: Uncovering Hidden

Revisions

About the Endres Papers Collection

• The Endres Papers is an archival collection that contains documents on refugee and immigration law.

• Arthur P. Endres, a staff attorney from the House Judiciary Committee on Immigration, Refugees and International Law, donated his personal collection to Center of Migration Studies in the 1980s.

Dick Clark to Peter W. Rodino Jr., September 12, 1979. Endres Papers. St John's University.

Kennedy, Edward. "The Refugee Act of 1980." International Migration Review. no. 1-2 (1981): 141-156.

Refugee Act of 1979, December 2, 1979. Endres Papers. St. John’s University.

Stephanie Grant to Member of Congress, December 7, 1979. Endres Papers. St. John's University.

Wade McCree to Peter W. Rodino Jr., December 11, 1979. Endres Papers, St. John’s University.

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40000• The purpose of our research is to reveal and dissimilate the most fundamental revisions to the Refugee Act of 1980, many of which were previously unknown to the public. The passage of this Act helped alleviate some of the suffering faced by the hundreds of thousands of refugees who sought asylum in the United States.

• We achieved this by evaluating three exemplary documents from the Endres Papers Collection.

• In light of the Vincentian Tradition, we have given a voice to these underrepresented groups of refugees.

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Proposed changing the definition of a refugee

from “detained or threatened with detention” in Subcommittee bill to

“persecuted or has a well-founded fear of

persecution. (Clark letter)

Abolished the requirement that refugee

status can only be granted to those fleeing communistic or Middle

Eastern Countries.(Grant letter)

Increased admissions of refugees from

250,000 to limitless.

(McCree letter)

Supports the four-year phase down

of special federal assistance to Cuban

Refugees. (McCree letter)

Increased the Emergency Migration

and Refugee Assistance fund from

$25 million to $50 million. (Clark letter)

Proposed establishing an Office of Refugee

Resettlement.

(Kennedy letter)