European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 26, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday May 26, 1986 the stars and stripes Page s Power ins wants National network to tight illegals Washington not the immigration and naturalization service has drafted a Bill that would sharply enhance the government s Power 10 prevent detect Imd punish violations or immigration Law. One if the most far reaching provisions says that aliens Tor whom a final deportation order has been issued could be arrested not just by Federal agents but by Uny state or local Law enforcement officer designated by the attorney general. The Bill does not Specif 1 How Many officers would have thai authority but a confidential ins report says this provision would permit the Federal government to use a nationwide network of Law enforcement agencies to assist in effecting the removal of dangerous and undesirable under the draft Bill aliens who enter the United states illegally or who stay longer than authorized could be barred from the country for one year. The ins says this May be the most important proposal in the Bill because it seek to interrupt the process by which aliens violate the Law gain a foothold in the United states then obtain Job offers from employers who petition the government to Grant Legal status to the aliens. Now even aliens caught violating the Law can obtain permanent residence or other benefits the ins says. The draft Bill is being reviewed by the Justice depart ment. White House officials said that while it had not been cleared for submission to Congress it was generally consistent with the Reagan administration s policy. The Bill would require illegal aliens to pay for detention and deportation Cost. The attorney general could seize their assets including wages Bank accounts and real estate to help pay these expenses. The aliens liability would be limited to s45 a Day for detention and j 500 for deportation. The Bill would increase fines for virtually All violations of the immigration Law More than doubling the penalties in most cases. For example the Fine for smuggling or harbouring illegal aliens now 12,000 for each alien involved in the offence would be increased to 15,000 for each alien. In addition an alien admitted As a permanent resident to work at a particular Job would have to keep that Job for at least one year or face deportation. Present Law has no such provision and As a result. Ins officials said aliens legally admitted for one Job often end up competing with . Citizens for other jobs. Administration officials said the Bill was meant to complement a comprehensive Bill passed by the Senate last year to curtail illegal immigration. That Bill would offer Legal status to aliens who entered the United states Ille Gally before Jan. I 180, and would prohibit employers from hiring illegal aliens similar legislation pending in the House has been delayed by disagreements Over a proposal to admit thousands of temporary foreign workers to help Harvest fruit and vegetables. A spokesman for the ins said the administration remained firmly committed to the Senate Bill but would not wait for its passage before sending Congress the new measure called the immigration improvement act. The proposed expansion of Law enforcement Powers ii Likely to encounter opposition from some members of con Gress especially House democrats and from hispanic groups who have objected to other immigration proposals on the grounds that hispanic americans would suffer discrimination. Highlights of the draft Bill the government could revoke the Legal status aliens gained by marrying . Citizens if. The marriage Breaks up within two years under present Law aliens can become permanent residents immediately after they marry Ameri can citizens. The provision is intended to combat fraud in which american citizens arc paid to enter Sham marriages with aliens of Are misled by aliens who desert them shortly after the marriage. Temporary workers from Canada and Mexico could be treated differently from those of other countries. If the United slates negotiated a labor Exchange agreement with Canada or Mexico the attorney general could waive nor Mal protections that bar admission of foreign workers if us. Residents Are available to do the Job or if the aliens would adversely affect the wages and working conditions of people in the United states. Immigration officials would gain Access to social Security lax records showing the identity and locution of aliens in the United slates. Social Security officials citing a 1976 Law have sometimes refused to share such information. Us. Reliance on open Oil increases refugee or a. F ii r i car prize inn Gas Price Fak Federal study concludes $9f500 of auction Washington up the drop in Oil prices has sharply increased the United Stales Reliance on open and worsened the us. Trade balance a congressional study released saturday says the report by the joint economic commit tee says that with the falling Price of Oil saudi Arabia jumped from our Lith largest source of Oil Supply to our no. 2 source since last fall. More generally virtually All the Rise in . Oil imports has come from open the reason the report said is simple open is the Only significant source of Oil worldwide that was not already producing Flat out before the Oil Price drop last the organization of Petroleum exporting countries now accounts for 41 percent or 2-1 million barrels per Day of total . Import compared to just 36 percent in 198s, us. Oil imports from open have risen 500,000 barrels per Day this year the re port says. At present trends open will be supplying Over one half of All . Oil in ports Byliss sen. Lloyd Bentsen a Texas who re a sted the report has consistently argued t the dropping Oil Price could harm National Security by making the United slates too dependent on foreign Oil. Open crude Oil production in barrels per Day 35r .197e7? note 1935 to Tanoai now be average 1966 is Koch Stimao Crofit or chert soum a cow Itoi Enow to nth " in a statement Bentsen argued thai the trend could push the country right Back to the kinds of problems thai we had in the 1970s when the open countries gave us Long gasoline Bentsen said the Short term gains that we have seen from the drop in the Price of Oil Wilt be paid far very dearly Over the Long term in National Security unless we take some action now. On the new York mercantile Exchange West Texas intermediate the Benchmark . Crude Rose 43 cents to a 5.5� a barrel. Analysts said the Price was bolstered by Strong . Demand for gasoline which has drawn Large Oil companies into the Market to supplement inventories. The study also noted that imports have been rising More than prices have fallen. In the first Quarter of i9s6, it says imports were up 30 percent while prices were Down 20 percent. The Price drop does did not appear to be improving the nation s Trade deficit As some had suggested. Falling Oil prices Are worsening the Trade balance rather than improving the report says. Indeed based on first Quarter results failing Oil prices will add Over s5 billion to the United slates Trade deficit this Honolulu up the car an 11 year old vietnamese refugee girl won in a statue of Liberty essay contest but could t accept because of welfare rules was auctioned for 19,500 saturday. The Money will be kept in a Trust fund for the child s education. Hue Coo could not keep this new car de spite efforts by president Reagan because accepting it would have disqualified her family for welfare. Hue whose family fled Vietnam in a Small boat in 1979, also won a trip to new York for the fourth of july statue of lib erty Centennial festivities. While House officials have said something special will happen to Hue in new York. The president had called Hue to congratulate her on her prize winning essay an. Freedom and lady Liberty. Knite wielder charged with air piracy Chicago a a knife wielding Man who Heid a woman hostage aboard a jetliner at o Hare International Airport before Bong persuaded to release her was charged sat urday with air piracy officials said. Corgi Jordanov Dinev 24, described As a bulgarian a would be playwright and a strident anti communist screamed during the standoff that no one in the United states was interested in his plays one of which he had with him officials said Dinev entered the Swissair do joas Pas sengers were boarding Friday night for a flight to Zurich Switzerland ran to the rear of the plane grabbed a female passenger and pressed a knife to her Throat Fri spokesman Bob Lon said in a prepared statement. The Man demanded to be taken to Switz Erland said Walter Stark Swissair a Chi Cago station manager. He described Dinev s play of anti communist. The woman was released after about 30 minutes when the plane s Captain Martin Borner told the Man. I m not taking any one anywhere with a knife Stark said. She had suffered some superficial cuts on her hand officials said. The Man handed Over some papers and surrendered after Boner told him you give me your documents and i will take them to Switzerland for you about 60 people on the plane were evacuated when the incident began officials said. He said he wanted a plane and he wanted it Quick or he was going to kill her said passenger Gene Hudgens 51, Dinev said he hated America Hudgens said Long said the bearded Man screamed in broken English that no one seemed to be interested in his works in this country flight 125 took off 90 minutes late. Fed eral aviation administration spokesman Mori Ede Stein said. The hostage who was not identified continued her trip officials said. Long said authorities did not know How Dinev got to the plane area which is about a mile from the terminal. Passengers Are bused to planes from the terminal Dinev appeared saturday before . Magistrate Elaine Bucklo who ordered him held at the metropolitan correctional Cen Ter without band and scheduled another court appearance for tuesday. He is a strident anti communist but we Don t know whether he is with any group assistant . Attorney Bill Spence said saturday Dinev entered the United slates several weeks ago on a Creek passport and a Visi Tor s visa and officials Are trying to deter mine if he was in the country legally . Sands or time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. May 26, 1946 president Truman told the nation that the army would oper ate the railroads if the 250,000 rail strikers failed la return to work by today. Mean while the government took positive Steps for Federal operation of the nation s soft Coal mines 30 years ago today. May 26, 1956 in Chicago Casey Stengel venerable new York Yankees manager predicted that Yogi Berry and Mickey Mantle will break babe Ruth s Home run record ibis year if the american league pitchers Don l walk them a 20 years ago today. May 26,1966 buddhists in Saigon kept up their Defiance of Premier Nguyen Cao by s regime in their Northern stronghold of Hue despite the defection of the chief military com Mander there from rebel ranks. 10 years ago foday. May 26, 1976 president Ford urged mobilization of the notion s health care sys tem to inoculate every american this fall against an expected flu epidemic
