I support the legalization terms now in H.R. 1510 because they provide for a decent. just. and humane resolution of a longfestering condition that leaves decent human beings existing in a callous world of indignity and exploitation. If we do not preserve the legalization formula in the committee bill. we will be condemning unknown millions of hardworking. lawabiding peopleand their childrento an inhumane existence. with the constant dread of discovery and the protection of our laws denied them. When the Immigration Reform and Control Act was first introduced in early 1982. it proposed a twotiered legalization using the dates of 1978 and 1980 set forth in one of the amendments we will soon take up. If this amendment were to be adopted. we will have failed to move the legalization cutoff to coincide with the passage of time and will. in fact. have gone backward from where we were in These amendments basically say there is nothing wrong with allowing the United States to be a nation in which some people enjoy the full protections of our laws. and some do not. I simply cannot accept that proposition.
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