LUNGRENs amendment for a twotiered legalization with 1977 and 1980 cutoff dates and special provisions for Cubans and Haitians represents an appropriate compromise between widely divergent views on legalization. The House Judiciary Committee version of this legislation preserves the major features of the bill reported in the last Congress. Employer sanctions remain the mechanism for turning off the magnet that brings illegal aliens to this country. The immigration adjudicatory provisions upgrade and streamline the system. Legalization is retained as a mechanism for addressing the problem of a large underclass of undocumented aliens. In many cases. we crafted improvements in the bill. In other cases. however. we unforttinately weakened this legislation.
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