The amendment seeks to restrict the fifth preference category to unmarried brothers and sisters of U.S. citizens. At present. the law applies simply to brothers and sisters. whether married or not. The gentleman from Indiana then seeks a permanent change in the immigration law which is clearly not consistent with the temporary nature of this bill. The amendment would work a particular hardship on those wishing to immigrate from Italy who have brothers and sisters in this country. That nation has the most serious backlog in the fifth preference category. If the amendment is adopted. it would virtually destroy one of the principal objectives of the billto reunite families. It has been argued here today that there has been an effort on three different occasions to eliminate the backlogs prior to the enactment of the 1965 immigration and nationality bill. and that is true. But the purpose of the 1965 bill was to eliminate backlogs. It was not accomplished.
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