believes that the number of quota immigrants admitted annually can be increased from the present quota of 155.000 to 250.000 without undermining employment opportunities for American workers. The AFLCIO is fully conscious of its responsibilities to its membership when it makes this recommendation. We do not overlook the fact that there are still more than 3 million American workers totally unemployed. It does come to our attention every now and then that a recent immigrant is working at a given job while an "American" is without work. But we are just as conscious of the fact that other "Americans" are at jobs created by some creative. imaginative "immigrant." We do not forget that thousands of "Americans" are able to retain their jobs because thousands of "immigrants" are buying shoes and milk and television sets and are going to the movies and eating in restaurants and sending their laundry out. What are we talking about when we talk about 250.000 immigrants? We are talking about oneseventh of 1 percent of the present American population. We are talking about 1 new American added to 700 other Americans.
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