Speech #930121250

I suggest to the gentleman from New York. with regard to his suggestion. that the subcommittee is working on this matter. and that it is of great concern to the subcommittee. but that it does not require a special amendment or legislation on this floor to impress the committee with the importance of the subject matter which the gentleman is presenting. The very fact that the gentleman has offered his amendment certainly will encourage the subcommittee to proceed more diligently in trying to find the answers to the questions with which the gentleman is so deeply concerned. The Immigration Subcommittee made an intensive study of illegal aliens generally in 197172. This study was not aimed at illegals from any particular country but an overall problem. No special study of one element of overall problems seems required nor appropriate. The House has already expressed its judgment as to the appropriate solution of the illegal alien problems by enacting H.R. 982 and should now await Senate action on that bill and the eventual results of its implementation after Senate enactment rather than complicating the situation with proposed action such as in the present amendment. H.R. 982. known as the illegal alien bill. passed the House on May 3. 1973. and is presently pending in the Senate.