From: ZHAO%HUXTAL.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu
Subject:      CCSA: IMMIGRATION LOBBYING PACKAGE (IV)
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Date:         Thu, 30 Jul 1992 23:53:00 EDT

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                CCSA: IMMIGRATION BILL LOBBYING PACKAGE (IV)


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                To:    Chinese Students and Scholars Nationwide


                From:  Haiching Zhao


                Date:  July 30, 1992



        Please read the following lobbying package carefully before you
talk/write to congressional offices and other American friends.


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            CHINESE FREEDOM LEGISLATION STILL NEEDED

                      Please Support S.1216

The struggle for democracy in China is integrally related to freedom
for Chinese dissidents in the United States.  As long as freedom
legislation is delayed, Chinese dissidents here will continue
to fear eventual reprisals for speaking out, and persons currently
protected by the President's Executive Order will continue to
live with uncertainty over their legal status when the Executive Order
expires.  They will be unable to make serious plans for the future,
or undertake long-term commitments to research or education projects.

Moreover, Chinese hardliners in Beijing will continue to be
empowered to repress dissidents in China.

The President's Executive Order granting temporary protection
to Chinese nationals in the United States is set to expire on
January 1, 1994.  What then?  Some believe Congress can wait
until 1993 to decide what should be done if Beijing continues
its human rights abuses against pro-democracy dissidents.
That is certainly what the hardliners want Congress to do, because
it also allows them to postpone their day of reckoning:  They can
continue their post-Tiananmen crackdown, leaving their options open
as to whether, in late 1993, they will have to make some human rights
"concessions" in order to avert Congressional action.

Chinese students in the United States do not want to wait two more years.
Beijing government must be made to understand, by Congressional action,
that they will reap the consequences of its own actions; that the safety of
Chinese nationals will be assured today; and that dissidents will be safe
from repression, either because Beijing proves it is safe for them to
return or because they may remain here permanently if Beijing government
does not.

The legislative proposal now before Congress accomplishes these objectives.
Building upon the President's temporary protection for Chinese nationals
after the Tiananmen massacre, the legislation states that if Chinese government
has not made it safe for them to return by July 1, 1993, the P.R.C. could
permanently lose thousands of its best and brightest due to its own
recalcitrance.

Three points warrant emphasis.  As a result of enactment of this legislation:

1.      The fate of those temporarily protected under the Executive Order would
        no longer be in legal limbo.

2.      Pro-democracy activists in the United States could freely speak out with

        confidence that Chinese government will never be able to punish them.
        The cloud of fear presently hanging over them would be lifted.

3.      Chinese government will know that the safety of Chinese nationals now in

        the United States is not negotiable.  Either Beijing cleans up its act,
        so that these nationals may return to the P.R.C. in safety, or, on July
1,
        1993, every Chinese national still in the United States will have the
        option of obtaining permanent residency here.

You can help free the Chinese pro-democracy dissidents and students by
supporting the swift enactment of this Congressional "declaration of
freedom," the Chinese Student Protection Act of 1992; S.1216.

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