Mr. LUNGREN will be permitted to offer a substitute amendment to the Schumer proposal. Essentially. the Lungren amendment would strike the Schumer proposal and insert the Senatepassed immigration bills seasonal worker program. Although I have some problems with this socalled Wilson proposal. it has many lucrative features. It does not allow more than 350.000 foreign workers into the country at any one time. does not allow workers to stay in the United States more than 9 months out of the year. provides a monetary incentive for workers to return to their native countries. denies Federal welfare benefits to foreign workers. and expires at the end of 3 years unless Congress votes to extend the program. The Schumer proposal is not the solution to the agricultural industrys concerns or the solution to our immigration problems. It is only the beginning of bigger immigration problems for our Nation. I urge my colleagues to support the motion to defeat the previous question.
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