So it is not what will go on thereafter. but what is happening in Central America right today. Second. if I might also beg the gentlemans approval for further time. I believe this debate points out the very strong need for this House to deal with the immigration reform issue. The immigration reform bill was brought before the House last year. it is before the House again this year. before the Committee on Rules. It deals with the subject of immigration on a comprehensive basis. but it deals with it in one specific area: how you determine who is a refugee and who is an asylee. The problem that we have now is that there are political decisions being made about who can be clothed with the status and sanction of being a refugee and. therefore. entitled to stay in the United States. and which people are sumarily to be sent back to their homes. Our bill changes that. It separates the question of enforcement of the immigration law and puts the question of asylum before separate and independent arbiters. Let me also say that unless we deal with this subject in a comprehensive way. we will have this kind of ad hoc treatment. and again. the refugee issue really should have come before the Committee on the Judiciary. This kind of an amendment really ought to come before the Immigration Subcommittee. I wish it had. Again.
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