Speech #990080194

Many of those resolved issues are part of the new House legislation and will be pursued. All of the various proposals and recommendations are quite remarkably similar. That really should not be surprising to anyone since they were all the product of intelligent. caring men and women who were attempting to deal with the same problemsthat immigration to the United States is out of control. Because those of us involved in the drafting of S. 1200 faced the same problem. it is again not surprising that our proposed solution is not dramatically different from the others of the recent past. Madam President. I will explain briefly the provisions of S. 1200. but before I do I would want to present a few remarks on the illegal immigration problem faced by this country. I ask my colleagues to please note that we are not talking about legal immigration. Every year. hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants enter the United States. They come for various reasons: fear. anxiety. to work. Some who are asylees are able to petition our Government to stay. They are considered on a casebycase basis. The inflow of illegal immigration appears to have become substantially higher in recent years. At least some indication of that can be found in the dramatically increased numbers of ap. prehensions. In 1965. that number was over 100.000.