It is reassuring that the Senate is not only enacting important legislation. but it is also providing the funds with which it can be successfully implemented. On a related matter. I am pleased that the conferees chose to include an amendment which I offered during floor consideration of this immigration bill last September. mandating a study. to be concluded within a year of enactment. of technological alternatives for a more tamperresistant Social Security card than that now issued. Since this bill declares that Social Security cards are a form of proof of authorization to work in this country. I feel that if is vital to curb abuse of these valuable documents by illegal aliens. Another aspect of this bill. of great interest to me and the members of my State. is a provision to allow 10.000 additional immigration visas over the next 2 years for individuals from Ireland and Western Europe. There is one problem. however. with the Immigration and Nationality Act which is not addressed in this bill. and it concerns the McCarranWalter Act. This archaic provision allows INS officials to seize any alien in this country. or prevent the entry of an alien. who is suspected of Communist. subversive and terrorist activity designed to endanger the security of the United States. Just yesterday. the New York Times reported the detention of a very wellrespected journalist from Columbia who was invited here by the Columbia University School of Journalism to receive an award for distinguished journalism.
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