Mr. President. I am pleased that this Omnibus Appropriations Bill will include a delay of the implementation of Section 110 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996. The 1996 immigration law mandated the implementation of an exitentry system at all U.S. borders by September 30. 1998. If implemented. the impact of this provision would be devastating. causing insufferable delays at the U.S.-Canadian border. particularly in my own state of New York. Trade. tourism and international relations would all suffer. Last year. I joined with Senator SPENCER ABRAHAM and other colleagues to introduce the Border Improvement and Immigration Act of 1997 which would maintain current crossborder traffic along the northern border and I testified at a Senate Subcommittee hearing on the repercussions of implementing Section 110 on New York. On April 23. 1998. the Senate Judiciary Committee considered and marked up the bill. The bill approved by the Committee allows land border and seaports to be exempt from the new system.
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