100 STAT. 3440
PUBLIC LAW 99-603—NOV. 6, 1986
"(3) An alien shall not be considered to have failed to maintain continuous physical presence in the United States under paragraphs (1) and (2) of subsection (a) if the absence from the United States weis brief, casual, and innocent and did not meaningfully interrupt the continuous physical presence.". 8 USC 1253 note.
(c) SENSE OF CONGRESS RESPECTING TREATMENT OP CUBAN POLITI-
CAL PRISONERS.—It is the sense of the Congress that the Secretary of State should provide for the issuance of visas to nationals of Cuba who are or were imprisoned in Cuba for political activities without regard to section 243(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1253(g)). Maritime affairs. Aircraft and air carriers. 8 USC 1101 note.
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(d) DENIAL OF CREW MEMBER NONIMMIGRANT VISA IN CASES OF
STRIKES.—(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), during the oneyear period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act, an alien may not be admitted to the United States as an alien crewman (under section 101(a)(15XD) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15XD)) for the purpose of performing service on board a vessel or aircraft at a time when there is a strike in the bargaining unit of the employer in which the alien intends to perform such service. (2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to an alien employee who was employed before the date of the strike concerned and who is seeking admission to enter the United States to continue to perform services as a crewman to the same extent and on the same routes as the alien performed such services before the date of the strike. TITLE IV—REPORTS TO CONGRESS
8 USC 1364. President of U.S.
8 USC 1251.
SEC. 401. TRIENNIAL COMPREHENSIVE REPORT ON IMMIGRATION. (a) TRIENNIAL REPORT.—The President shall transmit to the Congress, not later than January 1, 1989, and not later than January 1 of every third year thereafter, a comprehensive immigration-impact report. (b) DETAILS IN EACH REPORT.—Each report shall include— (1) the number and classification of aliens admitted (whether as immediate relatives, special immigrants, refugees, or under the preferences classifications, or as nonimmigrants), paroled, it or granted asylum, during the relevant period; (2) a reeisonable estimate of the number of aliens who entered the United States during the period without visas or who became deportable during the period under section 241 of the Immigration and Nationality Act; and (3) a description of the impact of admissions and other entries of immigrants, refugees, asylees, and parolees into the United States during the period on the economy, labor and housing ^' markets, the educational system, social services, foreign policy, environmental quality and resources, the rate, size, and distribution of population growth in the United States, and the impact on specific States and local units of government of high rates of immigration resettlement. (c) HISTORY AND PROJECTIONS.—The information (referred to in subsection (b)) contained in each report shall be— (1) described for the preceding three-year period, and (2) projected for the succeeding five-year period, based on " reasonable estimates substantiated by the best available evidence.
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