Mr. President. on numerous occasions. as my colleagues will recall. I have stood on this floor to discuss issues relating to the immigration policies of the United States. A news story just off the Associated Press newswire has caught my attention today. I should like to bring it to the attention of this body. Richard Schweiker. the Secretary of Health and Human Services. and our former colleague in the Senate. has just instituted and completed a survey on the issuance of social security cards in this country. One item that has resulted from that survey that is of interest is that Secretary Schweikers investigators found that nearly onehalf of the social security cards issued in New York City and Washington in the first 9 months of 1980 went to aliens. 20 percent of whom were in this country illegally or without work permits. Mr. President. I submit that that does suggest the deplorable state of the immigration policies of this country and the implementation of those policies. I call my colleagues attention to the fact that a few days ago. I. along with some nine other Members of the Senate. introduced legislation dealing with some of those problems and I commend that legislation to their attention. I commend the distinguished Secretary of Health and Human Services. Mr. Schweiker. for immediately issuing orders to tighten up the issuance of social security cards and working with the Immigration and Naturalization Service in developing better procedures so that we can have some kind of order. some kind of control over the social security cards that are issued and to whom they are issued and can help straighten out the immigration problems that we have in this country. Mr. President.
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