Mr. President. our distinguished colleague. Senator SIMPSON. who is serving as chairman of our Subcommittee on Immigration and Refuge Policy. has worked tirelessly this year on the long overdue effort to reform our Nations immigration laws. Under his leadership. the subcommittee has conducted scores of hearings on every facet of the immigration law. and chaired the first joint hearings in more than three decades with the companion subcommittee in the House of Representatives. Both subcommittees are now grappling with the tough issues that have been placed before us by the Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy. and by the Reagan administration. which has responded to the Commissions recommendations. I commend Senator SIMPSON for his leadership and for his effort. through each of his hearings. to reach out to all constituencies concerned with immigration issues. and to hear all sides on the extraordinarily complex and difficult questions we now face. Even more. I share Senator SIMPSONs view that "reform is imperative." We have neglected immigration problems for too long. causing one of our countrys oldest tradiitons to become one of our most controversial and misunderstood issues. Instead of embracing our immigrant heritage. many Americans are coming to fear it and to see it as a process that is out of control. We must restore confidence in our Nations immigration laws. Mr. President. Senator SIMPSON recently reviewed some of the immigration issues that are now before us in a thoughtful address he delivered to a distinguished immigration conference in Williamsburg. Va. I commend to the attention of all my colleagues. and to the public at large. Senator SIMPSONs speech. entitled "United States Immigration Policy: Unsettled Issues and Emerging Policies." I ask that it be printed at this point in the RECORD. The speech follows:
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