Mr. President. with all due respect to the Senator from Wyoming. have been issues that I have stood for since I have been in the Senate. As the Senator will see from the 12 or so amendments that I will be offering. a heavy percentage of them deal with the issue of family reunification. If there have been no changes in terms of the reunification of families. there will not be any trouble in getting those amendments accepted. If there have been. then the Senate will have a chance to vote on it. But I do not think that this body ought to be under any illusions that this issue does not alter and change existing laws on the reunification of families. because It does. and it does so in important ways. One of the points that has not been mentioned by the Senator from Wyoming is that we only began to permit family reunifications since 1965 for hundreds of thousands of Asians. They were not like the Irish that came in over 100 years ago. and were able to bring in all their brothers and sisters. After eliminating the discriminatory provisions of the 1965 act. we permitted some of those individuals to come in.
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