Chairman. I would just like to raise one point and restate something that I said earlier. The purpose of our immigration system is to reunify families through the admissions of close relatives and to attract skills which are needed in the United States. because they are in short supply within our country. all this within the limitations of a statutory annual numerical maximum number of admissions. Our immigration law as it is presently is not designed to meet the demand that is present to admit all who want to come. but to admit a selected number of aliens. So what this means really is that we are talking about a change in the whole philosophy of immigration. The per country maximum of 20.000 annually has apparently had no adverse effect in the Eastern Hemisphere if special treatment is warranted for any country because the demand exceeds the 20.000 ceiling then the Philippines should be given special treatment. There is a backlog of more than 200.000 applicants in the Philippines waiting for visas but no special treatment is recommended. So I would say we have a similar situation. and I think we are just starting a series of causes and effects which will trigger a reaction among other nations where the demand is as great as or greater than that of Mexico.
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