People who are aware of the plight of Amerasian children must feel compassion for these unwanted children in Southeast Asia. Everyone agrees that we must find a solution to the hideous problems faced daily by these off. spring of American men and Asian women. However. the complexity of the issue with regard to immigration policy. and the lack of hard information about the numbers and whereabouts of the Amerasians in all seven nations mentioned in S. 1698. complicated our efforts to aid the Amera. sians. With this in mind. the amendment offered today adopts an incremental approach by allowing immigration preference to one group of Amerasians: Those fathered in Korea by a U.S. citizen between 1950 and the date of enactment of the bill. The amendment defines a group of children who suffer severe. institutionalized discrimination in the country of their birth. The number of these children who would require immigration preference would be manageable by the State Department and the immigration and Naturalization Service. I believe that this pilot program would be workable with sufficient stringency to discourage fraud. The program. when demonstrated to be successful. could easily be expanded to include children from any of the other countries where there is discrimination against those with American blood.
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