Chairman. I also want to endorse specifically those provisions of H.R. 2580 which place a greater priority upon keeping the family unit together. enabling the husbands. wives. children. parents. brothers and sisters of U.S. citizens to be reunited in this country. I am sure that my colleagues in the House know as I do of so many cases where our present quota system has caused incalculable heartache by keeping the members of families from joining each other. Bringing these families together is a matter of the highest priority in my view. and I am pleased to see that provision is made for this in the bill before us. Mr. Chairman. in conclusion may I say that as the Representative of an area in which I have had many opportunities to observe our immigration laws in practice. I respectfully submit that the current law is discriminatory. if not in its design. then in its practice. and that the amendments being proposed here today are not only desirable but necessary. I wholeheartedly urge their adoption by the House.
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