This bill breaks down that fabric that we set up before. That procedure is real clear. Under the Immigration and Refugee Act of 1980. if you want to seek political asylum. If you are in fear of persecution. if you are from an oppressed nation where war is going on or there are problems over there. you have a process. Each case is reviewed individually. case by case by the Attorney Generals representative. in this case the Immigration and Naturalization Service. with all the rights of appeal and everything else that we put out here on the floor in the past. If that is not enough. we have given the power. the Attorney General in fact has exercised the power in the case of the Chinese. for the Attorney General or the President to go ahead and defer the deportation and not deport people from whole nationalities. if indeed that helps. That is precisely already in the law. What this bill would do. though. is to say that 800.000plus Salvadorans. 200.000 Nicaraguans. about 45.000 Chinese or so. are going to have special treatment. by law. by statute. regardless of existing law and regardless of their condition. whether theyre here legally or illegally or otherwise. we cannot deport them under this bill.
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