H.R. 2224 will allow an American fishing industry to continue its operations in an American port with all the benefits which will result thereby. This history of the current law originates from INS. who issued an operational instruction to prevent alien crewmen in San Diego from residing in the United States while posing as crewmen. This operational instruction prevented alien crewmen from obtaining successive crewmen visas by leaving the United States and sailing into international waters then return to a U.S. port. The alien crewmen would thenceforth have to enter a foreign country prior to returning to the United States. As I noted earlier. the differences between Guam and San Diego are many.