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Thursday, June 14, 1984/The Battalion/Page 3 p ig ) Syndicate filers are;, tssingseass produtii P all kind! fie vrauji ' presidem 'or?” I a*!; ere,” hes gaffes tin eciai.” Schink named associate dean Dr. David Schink, professor of oceanography, has been named associate dean for research and planning for the Colllege of Geos ciences at Texas A&M University, announced Dean Melvin Fried man. Schink’s appointment, effective Sept.l, will shift some responsibi lities from Dr. William Merrell, Friedman explained, so that Mer rell may devote more time to his roles as principal investigator on the new deep Ocean Drilling Pro ject and Texas A&rM representa tive with the Joint Oceanographic Institutes Inc. and JOIDES (JOI Deep Earth Sampling). Merrell will continue to serve as associate dean, as will Dr. Davis Fahlquist, who has responsibilities for academic affairs. The author of some 30 journal papers and numerous other re ports, Schink joined the Texas A&M faculty in 1972 and was promoted to full professor in 1976. A chemical oceanographer, he earned degrees from Pomona College in 1952, Scripps Oceano- graphic Institute in 1953, Stan- ford University in 1958 and his Ph.D. from the University of Cali fornia at San Diego in 1962. In 1981, Schink — who is re sponsible for attracting more thap 2.8 million in research to Texas A&M in the past eight years —was honored for his work with Distin guished Faculty Achievement Award in Research from the As- sociation of Former Students. House kills alien United Press International amendments WASHINGTON — Increasingly restive House members Wednesday voted down two “killer” amend ments to a controversial bill in tended to stem the flow of illegal aliens across U.S. borders by penaliz ing employers who hire them. Losing patience with efforts by Rep. Edward Roybal, D-Calif., to scrap sanctions he said would lead employers to discrimination against citizens of Hispanic extraction, members voted 304-120 against his amendment to replace the employer penalties with labor laws. Rejection of the Roybal amend ment came after the House de feated, 274-137, one by Rep. Patricia Schroeder, D-Colo., to end em ployer sanctions after three years. Both amendments, strongly sup ported by Hispanic members, were attacked by Rep. Romano Mazzoli, D-Ky., the key House sponsor of the measure, and Rep. Dan Lungren, R- Cahf., its leading Republican sup porter. Mazzoli said the amendments were intended to kill the bill by strip ping it of employer sanctions, which he said were needed to keep aliens from continuing to stream across the border in search of work. “This is another killer amend ment,” he said of Roybal’s proposal. “The gentleman seeks to kill this bill.” After the defeat, Roybal declined to call up an even more far-reaching amendment to strip all sanctions from the bill, which also would grant amnesty to millions of aliens already illegally in the country. The House is in the midst of a scheduled week of debate on the im migration measure, one of the hot test and most divisive bills before Congress this year. Earlier Wednesday, by a standing vote of 14-12, the House approved an earlier amendment by Rep. Ron ald Coleman, D-Texas, stripping the bill of criminal penalties — leaving only civil penalties for violations. While they urged rejection of the amendment, neither Mazzoli nor Rep. Peter Rodino, D-NJ., the floor manager of the bill, sought a roll call vote on it. The sponsors of the bill, which is slowly moving ahead with Republi cans providing the decisive votes, ap parently counted on criminal sanc tions in a companion Senate-passed bill being retained if the legislation reaches a House-Senate conference committee. The Coleman amendment elimi nated a proposed criminal penalty of up to a $3,000 Fine and a one-year prison term for repeated violations by employers in the hiring of illegal aliens. It still left intact civil penalties of $1,000 for each worker hired ille gally by employers of four or more people. Roybal and other Hispanic mem bers of Congress are bitterly op posed to such employer sanctions, saying this will lead employers to dis criminate against job seekers who have Hispanic names, speak with an accent or “look foreign.” However, they say they support amnesty for millions of illegal aliens already in the country. The number of illegals already in the United States is not known, but the Census Bureau has estimated there are at least 4 million. The Im migration and Naturalization Serv ice estimates the number at about 6 million, while other estimates range to 10 million and even higher. The Senate-passed version of the so-called Simpson-Mazzoli bill spon sored by the Kentucky Democrat and Sen. Alan Simpson, R-Wyo., would grant permanent residence to most aliens who entered the country illegally before Jan. 1, 1977, and temporary residence to those who came later but before Jan. 1, 1980. The House version would grant legal residence to those who came before 1982. The employer sanctions are in tended to discourage more aliens from crossing the border in search of work. The number of illegals already in the United States is not known, but the Census Bureau has estimated there are at least 4 million. The Immigration and Naturaliza tion Service estimates the number at about 6 million, while other estimates range to 10 million and even higher. tie that *i e goofs b shows tilt! nd it doti: te’ve used i have to sc DW.” to purpos straight pi rogram?" nemo too ompanies 1 can use! now writ mner has straight sp icap fora Immigration bill could create ‘administrative nightmare’ United Press International A U.S. Border Patrol ofFicial Wednesday said employer sanction provisions in a pending immigration reform bill will create an “adminis trative nightmare” along the Texas- Mexico border, where alien arrests are up as much as 33 percent. Don Coe, assistant chief deputy of the Border Patrol’s Del Rio sector, said major personnel increases will be necessary if Congress passes an immigration reform bill that in cludes employer sanctions. Coe said however, that he gener ally supports the bill, which grants amnesty to some aliens and provides sanctions against American employ ers who hire illegal aliens. Coe and John Abriel, deputy dis trict director of the U.S. immigra tion and Naturalization Service in San Antonio, said surveys taken along the border indicate that some illegal aliens have been motivated by pending immigration reform. “Through the years, there are some aliens who come again with the thought in mind to benefit by pen ding legislation,” Abriel said. “We believe that, yes, aliens are and can be motivated with that thought in mind.” Abriel said he did not believe the Simpson-Mazzoli bill would create great administrative problems. “The Border Patrol is grossly un derstaffed and it has been for years,” he said. Coe said arrests of illegal aliens in the Del Rio sector were up 25 per cent over last year, with 3,261 arrests since May 1. Larry Teverbaugh, chief agent of the Laredo sector, reported even larger increases. “Apprehensions this year are quite a bit more,” he said. “It appears through the month of May, we’re up 33 percent over a year ago.” Teverbaugh said 9,111 illegal aliens were arrested in May. Figures for March and February showed in creases of 49 percent and 56 percent above last year, he said. “The employer sanction enforce ment is going to require some adjust ments in our work,” he said. “We never feel we have the force we really need to stop the flow of ille gals.” Teverbaugh said he hoped Con gress will pass pending legislation — separate from the Simpson-Mazzoli bill — that provides for more than 800 new Border Patrol agents. “We’ll need more people if were going to make it (immigration re form) work,” he said. Mexican-American border stops police but not fugitives j the act! screwupt' and hanc: said, “I h ng up so hows feat; ae star fro a dinner! ds to appc t the pern alf of prir he caterer o think ofi the name t organic ic TV'S* his year re princip tnge itw' rs?” erial ma) Anyone imaging dent start 1 him. in here,® United Press International BROWNSVILLE — Like watch dogs running to the end of their leashes and being wrenched back by their necks, police are stopped at the border while fugitives flit freely back and forth. Because it is an international bor der that divides the Brownsville- Matamoros, Mexico area, criminals working on one side of the Rio Grande may live peacefully and travel freely on the other. Asked how police here can get help catching fugitives from Mat- amoros, members of the Brownsville police department, the American Consulate at Matamoros and the Cameron County district attorney s office gave different answers. To enlist Mexico’s police assis tance, Brownsville police say the dis trict attorney’s office must File a re quest with the American Consulate in Matamoros to have the fugitive arrested under the Crimines Extran- jeros (foreign crimes) statute of Mexican law. Brownsville police Lt. Adan Marks said Mexican authorities then will charge the fugitive — not with the crime he is accused of in the United States but with fleeing to Mexico after committing a crime. Members of the American Con sulate at Matamoros said they would contact Mexican authorities if police or the district attorney’s office asked for help. “But we really don’t deal in the pursuit of fugitives,” said Consul Danny Root. “That’s generally han dled government to government.” Root said if police or the district attorney’s office need help from Mexican police, they must turn the matter over to the FBI. “The FBI uses their own contacts through the (U.S.) Embassy in Mex ico City,” Root added. But suggesting the FBI must be contacted, the Cameron County dis trict attorney said, “shows you don’t know what you’re dealing with.” While authorities disagree over procedures, fugitives remain free. Of three men indicted for capital murder by the Cameron County grand jury in recent months, two are still at large. Issachar Arias, 21, was indicted on Nov. 22, 1983, in a robbery-slaying that occurred on Feb. 15, 1983. Po lice and the district attorney say they believe Arias is in MatamorOs. Enrique Calderoni, 20, was in dicted last week in the July 11, 1983, robbery and killing of a retired Brownsville policeman. Authorities here say Calderoni also is in Mat amoros. The third man indicted for capital murder, Rogelio Castro Izaguirre, 22, also known as Domingo Lopez Ochoa, was found guilty and is awaiting sentencing. Police said they had nothing to do with returning Izaguirre, a Mexican citizen, to Texas for trial. 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