Mr. Speaker. the leadership of the Judiciary Committee has ignored the pleas of myself and other members of that panel for prompt and responsible action on immigration reform legislation. Instead. it has opted for a procrastination that places immigration reform in mortal danger. An article in last Sundays edition of the New York Times demonstrates the folly of this decision. Focusing on the village of Santiago Comaltepec in Mexico. it stresses three important points about illegal immigration. First. the Border Patrol reports that the number of undocumented aliens from Mexico who have been apprehended at the border in the last year has risen by 50 percent. Most of the constituents of this deluge cross the border for specifically economic reasonsperhaps to earn the dizzying wage of $5 an hour garnered last year by a village policeman. And most of them have no intention whatsoever of making the United States their new home.
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