Mr. Speaker. H.R. 6514. the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1982. has been called a balanced and fair approach to immigration reform. I do not believe that H.R. 6514 is either balanced or fair. I appreciate the hard work that the authors have dedicated to this bill. However. the bill is not balanced and can not be fair until it includes provisions considering foreign policy aspects of immigration reform. It would be potentially disastrous for the United States to restrict itself blindly to the domestic results of immigration. U.S. domestic and foreign policies have become intertwined. The newly installed president of Mexico. Miguel de la Madrid Hurato. has called the economic state in Mexico an "intolerable * * * emergency situation." There exists a delicate economic relationship between the United States and our Latin American and Caribbean neighbors. We must be responsible and not ignore the basic causes that drive people to leave their families and homes and emigrate to America. Editorial boards across the Nation have inferred that H.R. 6514 is a legislative compromise that enjoys universal support. This is not true.
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