Speech #1050125331

This is a program that is pragmatic. that will produce results. and that can be put in place quickly. since both governments already have vast experience with the techniques and organization involved in the concept. The bilateral development bank recognizes a mutual need. operates on the basis of mutual cooperation. and represents the kind of system in which both governments can place great confidence. because both governments have used the concept for decades. with great success. Today. illegal immigration is seen as a United States problem with a Mexican solution. But for the Government of Mexicio. stopping illegal migration would only increase the already great problems of poverty and unemployment within the country. On our side of the border. there can be no hope that the immigrant wave can be stopped or even much affected by a reform bill that in no way addressed the root causes of illegal entry. let alone makes it possible for legal migration to take place. My bill provides the real solutiona cooperative program that helps both countries solve a problem that vexes and embarrasses both. because it gives neither side advantage nor disadvantage. 0l 1255 I trust that we can have some show of support. This is the 2d session of the 100th Congress. It was my hope that we had a pretty good chance 2 years ago when we were considering the socalled Immigration and Naturalization Reform Act. but as I said just 1 minute ago. nobody was addressing the causes. We were. as we have been in the case of every single congressional consideration of every immigration issue since the beginning. working out of fear. It used to be the Oriental hordes that we feared. Then it became the Mexican hordes that we feared. but now the unseen and still growing but unaddressed problem is substantial illegal immigration from south of the Mexican border. That had not happened before. but it is now. That has been the subject matter of ample discussion on my part for years and years. of course.