Mr. Speaker. I am pleased proximately 12 percent of the Amerito speak in support of legislation that can University of Beirut facultytowill permit adjustment of status to taling about 50 professorswith that that of permanent resident for Cubans status under our immigration laws. and Haitians who arrived In the Lawful permanent residents generalUnited States prior to January 1. 1982. ly are expected to live in the United and meet certain other conditions. Al- States except for temporary visits though I had hoped that the plight of abroad. There is no exception for facCubans and Haitians could be ad- ulty of the American University of dressed in the context of the Simpson- Beirut with U.S. permanent resident Mazzoli Immigration Reform and Con- status. The result is that this small trol Act. the conferees remain dead- group of returning U.S. residents is locked on an unrelated issue. It s nec- subject to challenge on the ground essary. for this reason. to provide that they allegedly have given up relief to Cubans and Haitians through their immigration status in our counenactment of this separate bill. try by virtue of protracted or repeated The Carter administration linked absences. the futures of these two groups when Without this legislation. many of it provided the CubanHaitian entrant the faculty memberswe are tolddesignation. An effort to address the will leave their teaching posts and plight of one group without also pro- return to the United States in the viding relief to the other would be per- near future rather than lose their perceived by many people as discriminato- manent resident status. It is in our nary.
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