Mr. Speaker. today I am introducing legislation to facilitate trade and tourism between the United States and Canada by allowing Canadian bus drivers to enter the United States on appropriate visas. This legislation will correct an unintended inequity in our immigration laws that allows airline and ship crews to stop in the United States in the course of their business but does not allow the same privi. lege to motor coach drivers. My bill. which has also been Introduced by Senators DECONCINI. IAHY. and DAMATO in the other body. would bring bus drivers under the same immigration provisions as ship and airplane crews. Because of the current defect in the immigration laws. travelers in the Northeastern United States. particularly in New York. face the threat of a disruption in bus service. In recent years. Greyhound Bus drivers on routes that service points in both Canada and the United States have had trouble obtaining visas to drive their routes. Indeed. since 1983. these drivers have only been allowed to work under "emergency parole status." which will expire without chance for renewal in 1986. Without this legislation.
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