I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Chairman. this legislation in no way undermines our existing Immigration laws. It. in fact. gives codification and legal standard to the idea that some individuals need to be here temporarily for their own protection. not because they will individually be subject to persecution because they are a member of a particular group. politically. religiously or socially. but because their country is torn by war or because the situation in their country in terms of national disaster requires that protection. Their House unanimously approved by voice vote just this kind of legal structure in the last Congress. I do not see how anybody can be against the creation of that kind of legal structure. The extended voluntary departure power is created of whole cloth by the administration. it says that it is a matter of prosecutorial discretion. That is an inadequate basis for this kind of temporary protected status. There ought to be a statutory structure. This bill creates that kind of statutory structure.
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