Speech #980214136

Chairman. I will tell my friends in the House that this is the last time I will ask to extend my time. Now. moving on to the further protections of the individuals rights. our bill requires the Immigration Service to notify the alien seeking asylum. seeking the official designation of refugee. of the right to counsel before that individual can be summarily excluded. Now. in the judicial process. we do five or six things here again. all of which were done at the behest of varous civil rights and civil liberties organizations. First. we permit full circuit court review of all the asylum determination in exclusion cases. all deportation and exclusion cases. Presently under current law only some of the asylum cases. though all exclusion cases. can be heard through habeas corpus. The second thing is we preserve the right of habeas corpus under the basic habeas corpus statute. That has not changed. Third. we authorize for the first time the use of class action in habeas corpus. so one of the things we can do here even though maybe there is a limitation under this recent 11th Circuit Court case. it could be this gives additional rights under the habeas corpus section. We also provide for judicial review of denial of asylum claims in deportation cases. We allow administrative law judges to determine whether to admit newly discovered evidence in asylum cases. so that we do not only limit it to what you can bring with you. You can develop an entire complete evidentiary case. Last. we permit class actions prior to exhaustion of administrative remedies. class actions to test out constitutional violations.