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DATE: WEDNESDAY, July 25, 1990                   TAG: 9007250186
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A/2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

SINGLE AGENCY ADVISED FOR IMMIGRATION POLICY

"Immigration policy requires constant study and attention at a senior level of government," said the report by The Commission for the Study of International Migration and Cooperative Economic Development, a 12-member, bipartisan group formed by Congress.

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., and Sen. Alan K. Simpson, R-Wyo., lawmakers intimately involved in immigration legislation, said the creation of a central agency was an idea "worth pursuing."

Simpson's bill would consolidate all the functions of the Immigration and Naturalization Service except the U.S. Border Patrol with the Consular, Refugee and Human Rights and the Humanitarian Affairs bureaus of the State Department. It would also create a commissioner for migration affairs, who would be appointed by the president with consent of the Senate.

The commission, established by Congress in 1986 as a part of the Immigration Reform and Control Act, also suggested:

Free trade with Mexico;

Increased trade with other Western hemisphere countries;

Allowing Mexico and Caribbean countries to make and ship to the U.S. the cloth, clothes and steel that currently come from Asia;