Speech #970105484

See. Covenant with the Northern Mariana Islands � 503(a). 46 U.S.C. � 1681. note. According to the opening clause of �2(c)(2). the bill would seek "to alleviate the possible adverse impact of immigration into the Virgin Islands of the United States by relatives of aliens who have had their status adjusted" under the legislation by curtailing the availability of the preference provisions of � 203 to the relatives of those who had their status adjusted under the provisions of the bill. Section 2(c)(2) would authorize the Secretary of State to curtail the number of visas available to those for whom second preference petitions 4 are filed by an alien whose status has been adjusted pursuant to the provisions of the bill. Section 2(c)(3)(A) would provide that no alien may receive an immigrant visa by virtue of a fourth or fifth preference petition 5 filed by a citizen of the United States who had his status adjusted under the bill. unless the citizen is physically present and has resided continuously for at least two years in a State. or unless the Attorney General makes a finding of exceptional and extremely unusual hardship. Finally. the complex language of � 2(c)(3)(B) provides in effect that if a person whose status was adjusted under the bill secures after his naturalization the admission of a parent as an immediate relative under � 201. that parent cannot file a second preference petition for an unmarried son or daughter.. II. In evaluating the constitutionality of these restrictions on the preference provisions of � 203. we begin with two propositions: first. no alien has the constitutional right to enter the United States.