Speech #970042786

Constitutional rights are in the criminal law area only. We have an absolute right in this body to restrict whatever aliens we wish to restrict from receiving assistance. There is an inherent unfairness in the amendment by the gentleman from New York to those who are involved in having to deal with aliens who are here illegally and who fall into the category of those seeking to be not deported. but those who the Immigration and Naturalization Service is seeking to exclude. Now. there are two different types of illegal aliens: Those who are to be deported and those who are to be excluded. Those to be deported are the vast millions in this country who are here illegally who may not have been identified yet. but who are picked up by the Immigration and Naturalization Service once they are in the country. Those who are picked up by the Immigration and Naturalization Service when they enter this country are either detained or they are parolled subject to exclusion hearing. My substitute amendment which would be defeated by the amendment of the gentleman from New York would simply allow for fairness to be put into this so that those who are paroled by the Attorney General awaiting an exclusion hearing would be treated the same way as those who are illegally here and are picked up for deporting. They are both in the same category. Neither one should be here.