We have at hand the opportunity to demonstrate our regard for the human rights of those who. adhering to our rules and our laws and. at times. in response to our open invitation. have come to live and work among us and who now choose to make this their permanent home. We also have the opportunity to take active cognizance of the significance of the interrelationships between the U.S. territories in the Caribbean and the other peoples of this critical region. H.R. 3517 expresses its objectives in the required language of immigration law. referring to such necessary verbal abstractions as "the nonimmigrant alien worker under section 101(a)(15)(H)(II)" and a "fourth or fifth preference petition." Permit me. instead. to tell you briefly in plain words what this bill is about. Before the United States bought what are now the U.S. Virgin Islands from Denmark in 1917. there had existed for centuries a mostly unrestricted flow of residents between the islands under the jurisdiction of the various European colonial powers.
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