Mr. President. the issue dovetails in with what we did with the fifth preference in the bill. thich is elimination of it except to take care of the backlog which is there. which is now about 700.000 people. We then opened up the second preference. from a previous percentage of entire legal immigration which was 26 percent of 270.000. we now open that up to 65 percent. The reason for doing that is to try to take care of some of the problems that come from the elimination of the fifth preference. which is brothers and sisters of adult U.S. citizens. And even though I may not directly address the Senators concerns at least it gives the Senator the rationale as to why the fifth preference and the second preference are addressed together.
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