Mr. Speaker. on May 5 the legalization program which is the heart of the new immigration bill gets underway. The fate of millions of undocumented workers coming out of the shadows will be at stake. and it appears that the INS is unprepared to handle this avalanche of humanity. From every indication at centers across the country application forms are not ready and there are not enough doctors to conduct the required medical exams. Many of the legalization sites are opening without full staffs. and a large number of immigrants still distrust the agency they so long considered the enemy. My congressional office phone rings off the wall from people asking for information that should have been disseminated long ago. Mr. Speaker. by not properly funding the program. the administration is trying to starve this bill to death. By charging close to $700 per family after all expenses. the INS is trying to finance this program on the backs of the immigrants. That was not the intent of the Congress. It was also the intent of the Congress for the administration to enforce the antidiscrimination section of the bill. yet this has not happened. and there are hundreds of discrimination cases being reported by Hispanics and "other foreign looking people." Furthermore. in the agriculture provision the administrations definition of "perishable commodities" excludes many deserving grower groups and farmworkers.
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Generalization about immigrants distrusting the agency.