It was one of the prime objectives of the Committee on the Judiciary to reemphasize our desire to make it easy for families to be reunited in this country. So we broadened existing law by making infant children. spouses. and parents of U.S. citizens free of any numerical limitation whatever. Now. the figure of 115.000 was selected. Mr. Chairman. on the basis of two factors. First. the recent pattern or flow of immigration into the United States from this hemisphere and the Caribbean area. Second. we considered the changed status of the newly independent republics of the Caribbean. Jamaica and TrinidadTobago are in this group.
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