Speech #970225463

Mr. President. I ask my listeners today to imagine themselves members of the Immigration and Naturalization Service patrol looking for illegal aliens in agricultural country. let us say Guadalupe. Calif. As they go along the road. they see a farm over here with a number of brownskinned men stooped over gathering cauliflower or strawberries or whatever the crop may be. and they look like Mexicans. They say to themselves. "By God. they must be illegal Mexicans--they must be illegal aliens." So they charge onto the field and grab whomever they can. They charge on there in trucks. in fourwheel drive vehicles. on horseback. In doing so. they not only frighten those workers to death but they also destroy the crops. If it is cauliflower. they destroy the cauliflower. if it is strawberries. they crush the strawberries. Now according to the rules by which the INS works. they have to have a search warrant if they are looking for illegal aliens working in a hotel or a motel or a restaurant. but if they are looking for illegal aliens in an open field on a farm or in an orchard. they do not have to have a search warrant. My amendment No. 1908 will require that the Immigration and Naturalization Service. in their search for illegal aliens. must have a search warrant if they are going to search or invade the premises of a farm or an orchard with no fence around it. an open field. They have to treat that as private property in the same way they treat a Holiday Inn as private property or in the same way they treat a McDonalds restaurant as private property. In the latter cases. they would have to have a search warrant to go in and look to see who is working in the kitchen.