Mr. Chairman. this bill is legislation of great importance to my distict. In fact. it has been a unifying factor among the AsianAmericans. the Hispanic community and the IrishAmerican community. all of whom have problems on immigration which are redressed in this bill. so I am very grateful for the Morrison bill. and I thank the leaders of the Committee on the Judiciary for their hard work. Mr. Chairman. I rise in strong support of the amendment of the gentleman from New York . which would prevent thousands of already legalized aliens from being returned to undocumented status. I will not go into the details of the amendment because the gentleman from New York has already done so. I would just like Mr. Chairman. to proceed with two examples from my own district. cases of two individuals from the San Francisco Bay area which demonstrate the serious problems with the stage 2 application process. A 35yearold woman. who had already been approved for stage 1. went to an Immigration and Naturalization Service [INS] office on July 19 to find out when she needed to apply for stage 2. The woman is fluent in English and had been in the country for several years. She knew that the temporary resident card. the approval card for stage 1. did not specify the stage 2 deadline.
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