And I cannot help suspect that that might be one of the objectives of the twotier program. With all candor. we now have figures from a couple of our agencies that suggest that that might happen. The INS itself has estimated that under the twotier system only 38 percent of the current undocumented population would be eligible for legalization. 38 percent. Now. in addition to that. the Congressional Budget Office has estimated only 60 percent of those eligible will ever actually seek to be legalized. What does that mean? That about 23 percent of the current undocumented population will actually apply. It is also important to keep in mind that in all of the countries which have had legalization programs. fewer persons have applied for legalization than were expected. So notwithstanding the wave and hoards of people coming forward for legalization. I think that there will be a great disincentive. more particularly with a twotiered legalization program. Now. we have heard constantly here reference to immigrants and aliens who know the immigration law better than we do. Well. I think the gentleman from Ohio may be more correct when he said that anybody who thought they knew the law is certainly fairly confused about the legalization program as it exists now.
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Generalization that immigrants know the immigration law better than lawmakers.