Chairman. I rise in opposition to the gentlemans amendment. I think we should oppose it both because of what it does. which would be to make these various agencies of Government into extensions of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. which ought not to be the case. but I would like to look at it from a slightly different perspective and a more longrange reality. We. as a Congress. will have to come together. both sides of the aisle. all sides of the spectrum. to do something about illegal immigration. to do something about the gamesmanship which is being played with the asylum system. Just as recently as yesterday. the administration announced a bill which will be looked at on the Hill. along with other bills which will be fashioned in this Chamber to try to do something to correct this. so that we still have an asylum system for people who are. in fact. fleeing persecution. but prevent people from perverting and misusing the law. So I would hope. Mr. Chairman. that we could move beyond this amendment. vote it down. and then in some later week all of us together take up. some proper and longneeded reforms of the immigration and asylum law.
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