Speech #1030065821

pro tempere laid before the House the following message from the President of the United States. which was read and. together with the accompanying papers. without objection. referred to the Committee on the judiciary and ordered to be printed: To the Congress of the United States: I am pleased to transmit today for your immediate consideration and enactment the "Expedited exclusion and Alien Smuggling Enhanced Penalties Act of 1993." This legislative proposal is designed to address the growing abuse of our legal immigration and political asylum systems by illegal aliens holding fraudulent documents and by alien smugglers. Also transmitted is a sectionbysection analysis. The proposal is part of a larger Administration initiative that I announced on June 18. 1993. to combat the illegal entry and smuggling of aliens into the United States. The use of fraudulent documents by aliens seeking to enter the United States has increased dramatically. This proposal would expedite the exclusion and return of certain undocumented and fraudulently documented aliens who clearly are ineligible for admission to the United States. while ensuring that persons who have legitimate asylum claims receive full and fair hearings. In addition. the bill would Increase the ability of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) to prosecute alien smugglers and enhance the penalties for alien smuggling. The expedited exclusion procedures would apply to an alien who. for example: (1) attempted to use a fraudulent passport to enter the United States. (2) came to the United States by commercial airplane and did not present a visa upon arrival. or (3) was encountered by the Coast Guard on the high seas and brought to the United States. To apply for asylum. these aliens first would have to establish that they had a credible fear either of persecution in the country from which they had departed or of return to persecution. If an asylum officer determined that the alien had such a credible fear. the alien then could apply for asylum. If the alien did not have the requisite fear of persecution. the alien would be subject to an immediate order of exclusion barring him or her from entering the United States. The bill would limit judicial review of such an exclusion order.