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Cable Ownership Topic Of Congl
Hearing
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Caucus Charges Reagan's
Hatian Refugee Policy Bias
WASHINGTON s
Congressman Parren J. ";
Mitchell (D-Md.), chair
man of the House Small
Business Committee, an
nounced last Wednesday
the third in a series of
Subcommittee hearings
on small and minority
business access to the
cable television industry.
The hearing was to be
held on Wednesday,
November 4, in the
Rayburn House Office
Building.
"Through organized
efforts a very few local
independent small and
, minority businesses have
successfully obtained
local cable TV fran
chises," said Con
gressman Mitchell. "We
are pleased to hear from
some of these companies
at Wednesday's hearing
so, that this Subcommit
tee can better understand
how they have been able
to obtain these highly
desirable cable TV fran
chises." During the Subcom
mittee's previous hear
ings, it was noted that no
existing company has.
ever constructed cable
TV systems of the tyr"
and size which are beii.e
considered by such cities
as Washington, D.C.,
Detroit, Philadelphia,
New York, Chicago,
Cleveland, Los Angeles,
St. Louis, Houston or
Baltimore. Therefore,
the Subcommittee was
told, there is no
guarantee that a large
company can provide
better local cable TV ser
vice than could be pro
vided by a local indepen
dent small or minority
business.
"We have been told
that local independent
small and minority
businesses must over
come a public. perception
problem in competing to
obtain local cable TV
franchises. Apparently,
local municipalities
believe that bigger means
better," Chairman Mit
chell said, adding, "the
evidence in this area does
not appear to support
the belief that bigger
means better local cable
TV service." Many of
the more than thirteen
niMion local indepen
deni small and minority
businesses in thi country
must be included in the
ownership, construction
and servicing i of local
cable TV systems."
Witnesses scheduled to
appear include: Herbert
H. Hamlet, president?
Pan-American Telecom
munications Inc., Atlan
ta, Ga.; Donald T.
Templeman, deputy ad
ministrator, SBA,
The Congressional
' Black Caucus recently
called the Reagan Ad
ministration program to
interdict Haitian boat
people on the high seas a
"flagrant example of
both an ideologically and
racially biased refugee
and human - rights
policy."
Speaking on behalf of
the eighteen-member
Caucus, ' Chairman
Walter E. fauntroy1
(D-D.C.) said that the
"new Haitian policy
coupled with the alarm-'
ing U.S. tilt toward the'
racist government in
South Africa and our
country's decision to
eliminate the 'extended
voluntary departure'
program for Ethiopian
nationals are all in-
CHISHOLM
Sees Wrong
Response To
Immigrant Woes, ;
" W AHlrOr
Congresswoman Shirley
Chisholm (D-New York)
this week characterized
President Reagan's call
for emergency powers
against today's un
wanted immigrants as an
"anachronistic"
response to our immigra
tion problems".
The concresswoman
was particularly critical
of proposals to in-s
, carcerate and deny due
process rights to even
those aliens seeking
asvlum in this country.
"I thought that world
history had taught all cf
us to beware of
'emergencies' manufac
tured to abrogate in
dividual constitutional
rights," she warned.
"The Administration
wants to punish the vic
tims of discriminatory
policies for successfully
using our legal system to
thwart those policies.
This is not 'streamlining
the process for our effi
ciency', but rather a bla
tant drive to cut aliens'
access to our courts."
C o n u r c s s w o in a n
Chisholm expressed her
hope that the Congress
would reject attempts to
restrict the appellate pro
cess for asylum denials,
and she sees some
positive signs in
statements by the chair- .
man of i lie Senate
judiciary Subcommittee
on Immigration, Senator
Man k. Simpson, regar
ding fairness and
c(.ii i ability of treatment
of aliens.
The New York
Representative also ob
jected to proposed
Presidential authority to
iolate U.S. and interna
tional law. "Is the Con
gress expected," she ask
ed, "to provide the
President with a license
to violate the law to ad
. dress what may be a
il u e s t i o n a b I e
emergency?"
"The bottom line on .
this request for emergen
cy powers," Con
gresswoman Chisholm
concluded, "is an ap
parent return to the
restriction of the early
IWO's. The
discriminatory mimig ra
tion policies " of the
United States during that
era did not serve our
country well then, and
they will not serve us well
dicative of this ad
ministration's total
disregard for the human "
rights of black
refugees."
Fauntroy said the U.S.
has developed a dual
refugee policy which has
different standards for
refugees fleeing black
nations compared with
refugees from the Soviet
Union and East Euro
pean Communist coun-'
tries.
"Interdiction is enfor
cing Haitian laws which
make it a crime to leave
Haiti without a visa from ,
the government. The
Haitian law is identical
to the exit requirements
in the Soviet Union. But
the U.S. has applied a
different standard in
dealing with the Haitian '
refugees," Fauntroy
said. "Haiti can no
longer claim a proud
heritage as the world's
first -black republic
' because of its corrupt
and repressive leader
ship." Fauntroy said he
would urge the Caucus'
to take the following
steps in response "to the
continuing bias in our
country's refugee
policy."
1) Commission an in
dependent legal analysis
of the legal remedies to
halt interdiction both
domestically and inter
nationally. 2) Urge Congress to
hold hearings on the
human rights impact of
the interdiction policy.
3) Withdraw support
of human rights in
itiatives by Congres-!
sional colleagues who do
1 not support Caucus
human rights programs.
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