We can vote to save the. plan. and remove the objectionable part of the legislation. or we can vote to kill the plan and try to salvage the drug enforcement part through separate legislation. As Members know. the plan cannot be amended today on the floor. I have made my decision with two overriding considerations in mind: To do everything I can and to support every reasonable measure to strengthen drug law enforcement. and to do everything I can and to support every reasonable measure to strengthen the Immigration and Naturalization Service. particularly in its work in suppressing illegal alien traffic. In my considered judgment. the best way to accomplish these purposes at this stage is to let the plan go into effect. thereby creating a new Drug Enforcement Administration. which. will bring together these separate groups and prevent the confusion and chaos which exists at this time. Then I believe we should work separately to build up the Immigration and Naturalization Service. The number of illegal aliens in this country apprehended has increased from 80.000 per year 10 years ago to 506.000 people last year. There has been much talk about improvements in the Immigration and Naturalization Service and Customs Bureau. There has teen some improvement. yes. 25 percent improvement in personnel in 10 years and 600 percent improvement in the workload. They tell us that they apprehended 506.000. and they believe more than 1 million are still here illegally.
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