Mr. Chairman. the subject of immigration law inevitably and invariably raises the deepest and darkest of human emotionsfear. first and foremost. Whenever Congress has acted upon immigration law. it has acted more on the basis of raw fears than anything else. It is not different today. There is no avoiding the reality of that fear and its embodiment in the SimpsonMazzoli bill. This should not be interpreted as being critical of the committee and its very able chairman. If we could set that fear aside. we would see that the pending bill. the SimpsonMazzoli bill. does not resolve the immigration problem at all. It allows those who want to claim they have acted on immigration law to point to the bill. win or lose. and say that they have done their best. But while that claim may satisfy the urge to say that we have done something. the cold reality is that this bill merely addresses the symptoms of illegal immigration. and ineffectually at that. It does not deal with the causes. It does not solve the problem.
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