I would like to bring the Members up to date and remind them of what that vote was about and perhaps remind some of them why they voted for the McCollum amendment. We have two different possible avenues that are taken when the Government questions the right of an alien to remain in this country and attempts to have him removed. One of them is called exclusion and the other is called deportation. With respect to summary exclusion. the McCollum amendment does not touch on deportation. Deportation as such or the deportation process deals with somebody who has managed to get his foot on the shore. walk up the beach and then later be apprehended. It may be 1 day later. it may 1 week later. or it may be several years later. There is a long standing process under the laws that now exist on the books for deportation. We also have a procedure called exclusion which is designed to handle those cases where people are apprehended. as they cross our border or attempt to cross our border by the immigration officers and the border patrol. Those folks are people who have never been in this country. but they have attempted to come here. They are very much apparent in my State of Florida and were those in many cases who came in during the Cuban Mariel boatlift a few years ago that many of you may remember.
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