Mr. Speaker. today the Immigration and Naturalization Service announced that as of July 1. it will begin to implement the special agricultural worker of the Immigration Reform and Control Act [IRCAI of 1986 the way that Congress intended. When the Congress passed IRCA. it had built in a mechanism into the law which was intended to provide a stable legal work force for Americas farmersthat mechanism of course was the Special Agricultural Worker Program. But somewhere along the line. congressional intent. and INS regulatory process took divergent paths. Instead of allowing SAW applicants in Mexico to make a nonfrivolous claimand enter this country to work before presenting the majority of documents to adjust their statusINS had required applicants to present a full application at the beginning of the process.
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