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 112 STAT. 2681-821 PUBLIC LAW 105-277—OCT. 21, 1998 Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, done at The Hague on October 25, 1980.". 8 USC 1182 note. (b) EFFECTIVE DATE. —The amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply to aliens seeking admission to the United States on or after the date of enactment of this Act. CHAPTER 3—REFUGEES AND MIGRATION Subchapter A—Authorization of Appropriations SEC. 2231. MIGRATION AND REFUGEE ASSISTANCE. (a) MIGRATION AND REFUGEE ASSISTANCE.— (1) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— There are authorized to be appropriated for "Migration and Refugee Assistance" for authorized activities, $650,000,000 for the fiscal year 1998 and $704,500,000 for the fiscal year 1999. (2) LIMITATIONS.— (A) LIMITATION REGARDING TIBETAN REFUGEES IN INDIA AND NEPAL. —Of the amounts authorized to be appropriated in paragraph (1), not more than $2,000,000 for the fiscal year 1998 and $2,000,000 for the fiscal year 1999 are authorized to be available only for humanitarian assistance, including food, medicine, clothing, and medical and vocational training, to Tibetan refugees in India and Nepal who have fled Chinese-occupied Tibet. (B) REFUGEES RESETTLING IN ISRAEL. —Of the amounts authorized to be appropriated in paragraph (1), $80,000,000 for the fiscal year 1998 and $80,000,000 for the fiscal year 1999 are authorized to be available for assistance for refugees resettling in Israel from other countries. (C) HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE FOR DISPLACED BUR- MESE.— Of the amounts authorized to be appropriated in paragraph (1), $1,500,000 for the fiscal year 1998 and $1,500,000 for the fiscal year 1999 for humanitarian assistance are authorized to be available, including food, medicine, clothing, and medical and vocational training, to persons displaced as a result of civil conflict in Burma, including persons still within Burma. (b) AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS. — Funds appropriated pursuant to this section are authorized to remain available until expended. Subchapter B—Authorities 22 USC 2601 SEC. 2241. UNITED STATES POLICY REGARDING THE INVOLUNTARY note. RETURN OF REFUGEES. (a) IN GENERAL. —None of the funds made available by this subdivision shall be available to effect the involuntary return by the United States of any person to a country in which the person has a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion, except on grounds recognized as precluding protection as a refugee under the United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees of July 28, 1951, and the Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees of January 31, 1967, subject to the reservations contained in the United States Senate Resolution of Ratification.

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