Speaker. last week I joined with my colleague. Congresswoman HOLTZMAN. to cosponsor a joint resolution (H.J. Res. 422). to protect undocumented residents from deportation or any other form of Government reprisals as a result of their participation in the 1980 census. Although title 13 of the Federal Code provides adequate protection to individuals. indeed. it Is illegal to release any census data. punishable by $5.000 fine or 5 years in jail. the problem has been that the administration has not been forceful in publicizing the fact that census information is absolutely confidential. Some type of public. demonstrative act perhaps in the form of a proclamation or pledge from this countrys chief legal officer. the Attorney General. as well as from the President. is required. This is not an amnesty issue. however a legislative affirmation is required to prod the administration into publicly declaring that individual census records are protected against Federal encroachment. This is a particularly sensitive issue in the case of undocumented residents and minority people. I have held census hearings all across the country. from San Diego to Puerto Rico. as well as in seven other cities. The Subcommittee on Census and Population. which I chair. has an addi-
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