As Mr. Reeder frames the question: "Several weeks ago 38 Cubans landed in
Miami in a stolen helicopter and said they had come to America because economic
conditions in Cuba had become intolerable. On the tape we just saw, we heard a Haitian
man give much the same reason for coming to this country. The Cubans were heralded
as defectors, the Haitians were intercepted and taken to Guantanamo. Do conservatives
think this policy is moral?" A serious discussion, but one that cannot solve the dilemma
that Mr. Buckley describes: "People who make heroic efforts to gain freedom--the boat
people in Vietnam come especially to mind--show the intensity with which freedom is
something people want, and they ought to be applauded and encouraged. But it's also
true that you run into situations ... in which the nature of the existing organism is
threatened by an unregulated inflow.... So the question is, How do you decide?"
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