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I support the rule. I support the bill. I believe that the increase in authorization- 50 percentin the Immigration and Naturalization Service is good. but I believe that that is only one step toward the vast job that we must do. Now. Mr. Speaker. we recently had a Hispanic Immigration and Naturalization Service Director. Leonel Castillo. who served with great distinction in that role. He testified before the Select Committee on Population about 5 or 6 years ago that we could establish a border control program that would work and would halt perhaps 80 to 85 or 90 percent of the illegal immigration using methods that were not offensive. We would not have to build a Berlin wall with machine gun towers and guards with police dogs. We could do it with normally accepted law enforcement methods. with normal surveillance. and with normal enforcement personnel.