Specifically. the INS set a November 1 date for returning to its policy of only accepting full SAW applications at its Mexico locations. This threatened to cause the same problems we had discussed in our spring negotiating sessions: any new SAW workers coming north this winter in the spring and summer of 1988 would find it difficult. if not impossible. to file a full SAW application in Mexico without first having access to employment records in the United States which support the application. The authors of the SAW Program continued to feel strongly that this policy was contrary to the clear language of the immigration reform bill and additional provisions placed in the July 1987 supplemental appropriations bill. Also. we pointed out that INS concerns that the procedure would cause mass movements towards the United StatesMexico border processing site and of fraud in the process never materialized. Finally. we felt that changing the procedure in midstream would add more confusion in a program which has been hurt by misinformation and misunderstanding.
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