Speech #970226784

Migration from rural areas to already overburdened cities is on the increase. Add continuing civil and regional wars. famine and repressionand migration flow will become migration flood. Limiting our immigration policy changes to domestic measures will thus have little impact on migration pressures from troubled areas of the world. Ultimately. our immigration problems must be managed with the cooperationand participationof other governments. For example. we need to recognize that our tacit support of the repressive Duvalier regime will be paid for in an influx of "boat people" to this country. In Central America. we must reject policies which favor confrontation and military solutions. since they add to emigration pressures. Trade and Investment incentives for Mexico and the Caribbean Basin should take into account their impact on Job creation and other domographic movements. As I mentioned earlier in this debate. proposals to provide incentives to United States and Mexican firms willing to locate in northern Mexico. if the Mexican Government is willing to assist in blocking illegal immigration. warrant serious consideration. Some of us have spent many months. and all of us have spent the past few days. discussing goodfaith legislative efforts to reform domestic immigration procedures. But the problems represented by immigration in the 1980s and 1990s will not be solved without a more democratic. imaginative and farsighted foreign policy. Mr. President. at this point I would like to introduce into the RECORD a letter written to me by Mr.