If the Senator from New Mexico wants to see some rapid relief for the beseiged U.S. copper industry. he should join. like some of us. in urging the administration to coordinate debt relief on a casebycase basis. If debtors had lower bills. they would divert less resources to digging and exporting. Finally. Mr. President. if we pass this amendment. we could impose impossible conditions on neighbors such as Mexico by preventing them from diverting resources to export activities. We could easily drive them toward default. And that would only make the debt problem more intractable. more of a threat to U.S. jobs and financial security and more likely to produce a wave of illegal immigration into this country. So. Mr.
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