Mr. Speaker. as I understand it. what has been involved in the procedure has been to authorize this program through the EDA as an additional authorization over and above the established allocations. and it would track along the line of the program we had for the LPW. the local public works. where public facilities are authorized to create jobs in higherthanaverage unemployment areas and at the same time actually address what in effect is a very serious Federal problem because of the pressures with immigration on the border. Now. I happen to believe. quite candidly. that we are going to have to start to address this. and I know that the gentlewoman from New Jersey . having just spoken to me. agrees with this. We are going to have to have an entirely new policy on immigration. we are going to have to have an entirely new policy with Mexico. and we see this as a measure that has to come about. I think. quite frankly. it came about because they repealed the bracero program a few years ago. if we want to know the truth. I think we are going to have to have something in the way of a visitor worker program or something to legalize it. if we want to minimize the problems.
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