They will not be able to keep the Jobs that they. in fact. have when the seasonal employment ends and they move on. The last or second deficiency in this bill is not what is in it. but what is not In it. There Is not a provision in this bill providing a full cap on immigration. We have today some very fine provisions of the law dealing with family reunification. and I really do not beg to argue that question. but what concerns me in large measure Is the fact that we do not have a true overall cap on those who are close family members and we have a lot of folks coming in In numbers that really the public is not fully aware of legally. but more importantly. we do not have provisions to take into account what are known as seed immigrants. We do not have a provision in our law today that actually in reality and in practice can account for those who would give special skills. for those who would be investors in this country and in this Nation of ours. who have in the past and under the law technically. normally. have a right In certain numbers to come here and to become citizens and to be productive and to lend to the great amalgum of this country. We do not have in practice that happening because the numbers available for immigration are being absorbed by the brothers and sisters in the family reunification portion of the Immigration Act. I submit that whatever we do in the future about changing the laws of legal immigration. we need to consider giving an opportunity once again for us to have those seed immigrants that have been a foundation of America. regardless of the fact that some of them do not have the relative. the blood relative. already in this Nation. Now. that legislation will not be In this bill and I will not bring it up as an amendment and I doubt seriously that it will be considered. but it needs to be considered in the future. It has been in the Senate bill.
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