Speech #960183328

But I would like to take a moment for the record to clarify what these amendments would cover and why I consider them relevant. Then I would ask the gentlewoman from New York . Chairman of the Subcommittee on Immigration. Refugees. and International Law. if she would have hearings on the question. The first amendment which I would have offered would state "The Attorney General may deport an alien who is a citizen or national of a particular country and who is admitted to the United States as a nonimmigrant (or within a classification of nonimmigrants). if the President determines that a national emergency exists with respect to the relations between the United States and that country and the alien fails to comply with the conditions of the aliens admittance or such additional conditions as the Attorney General considers necessary to impose on such an alien on account of the emergency.". As we all know. on November 13. 1979. the Attorney General issued regulations requiring all Iranian students in the United States to register with the Immigration and Naturalization Service and to prove that they were entitled to continuation of their student nonimmigrant status. A suit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia challenging the validity of that action. and on December 11. 1979. Judge Joyce Green issued an order enjoining further implementation of this regulation and further enjoining the Immigration Service from deporting any Iranian students found to be out of status based on information they obtained pursuant to such regulations. That case is on appeal. and arguments are scheduled in the Circuit Court of Appeals for today. The court found no statutory basis for the discriminatpry classification established by such regulation.