[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 135 (Thursday, October 1, 1998)]
[Senate]
[Page S11293]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 DELAYING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF SECTION 110 OF THE ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION 
            REFORM AND IMMIGRANT RESPONSIBILITY ACT OF 1996

 Mr. MOYNIHAN. Mr. President, I am opposed to implementing 
section 110 of the Immigration Reform Act of 1996. Its implementation 
would create widespread chaos and lead to untold congestion at our 
Northern borders' checkpoints, potentially creating havoc with our 
largest trading partner, Canada.
  Each year, more than eight million trucks cross the eastern United 
States-Canada border carrying a variety of goods to market. In 
addition, the Eastern Border Transportation Coalition estimates that 
over 57 million cars cross that border each year. Sixty percent of 
these are day trips--people crossing the border to go to work or 
school, attend cultural events or to shop. The remaining forty percent 
of auto border crossings were by vacationers.
  If implemented, an automated entry-exit system along the northern 
border would hamper both trade and tourism. This is not 
inconsequential. The United States-Canadian trade relationship is the 
largest in the world, totalling $272 billion in 1995. Compare this to 
$256 billion in trade for the entire European Union during that same 
period and one gets an idea of how important this relationship is and 
why it must remain unfettered by chaotic checkpoints.

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