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PEECH~1HTMf the members of the amnesty cases, just when they were about to prevail
in court.
Reducing the status of the thousands of individuals in these cases-all
of whom have lived and worked in the United States for some 16 years-to
the status of undocumented and removable aliens is not a humane nor a desirable
option.
While Section 377 stripped the courts of jurisdiction over some of
the class members it did nothing to prevent the administration from proceeding
to adjudicate the amnesty applications of all the class members. The administration
clearly has the ability to process all of the amnesty applicants in these
cases under existing law.
With the exception of the relatively small group of class members in
Immigrant Assistance Project of the AFL-CIO v. INS, the population affected
by § 377 is now both finite and identifiable.
The INS already has established procedures for determining which amnesty
applicants should be granted amnesty and which should not, and has well
established procedures for identifying and prosecuting fraudulent applications.
The possibility that a few of the applications in these cases may be fraudulent
should not prevent all the others from being adjudicated.
We request that the Clinton Administration do the following:
- Immediately extend minimal protection including protection from deportation
to the members of all late amnesty cases including members of the Catholic
Social Services and the Zambrano cases regardless of the status
of the cases.
- Renew the work permits of class members just as they have for the past
decade while the Administration determines how to address their status.
- Process all the applications in all the amnesty cases which can show
that they would have qualified for amnesty under the original Immigration
and Control Act of 1986.
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