Speech #980210455

Many of them want to come for economic reasons. and that is obviously so. Our great Statue of Liberty. with its burning torch of freedom. has symbolized that hope to millions for years. and I think all of us here in this great body want to see that hope and that torch continue to burn for years more. But if we are going to be able to have those freedoms. those individual liberties. those opportunities. that great nation that we have today. in order to bring huddled masses here in the future. we have to present order in our immigration laws. We have to regain the control over our borders. We have to find expeditious procedures to deal with those who come here in ways that they really should not have come. and to reward those who have. in fact. been able to get to our shores legally. and in the process as it has occurred over the years. to our country in the past. That is what is so important about the SimpsonMazzoli Immigration Reform and Control Act that we are here to debate. It must be passed. We must gain control of our borders again. There are really two thrusts to this bill. as this Member sees it. One of them is to regain control over those borders. The other one is to prepare expeditious means for handling the procedures for asylum and deportation and exclusion which have become bogged down over the years. Let us address each one of them briefly. and then a third concern that this Member has with the legalization provisions in the bill. Employer sanctions is nothing more than making it illegal to knowingly hire an illegal alien. We have found that in the year ending 1983. September 30. 1983. that is. the fiscal year. 2 million illegal aliens were apprehended on our border in that year. a 40percent increase over the year before. It is estimated that for every apprehension. there are between two and four successful entries. This kind of rampant influx has been occurring for some time.