Speech #980214551

I thank the gentleman for yielding. To digress from the problem that we are confronted with here in America of illegal. uncontrolled immigration. and then to attempt to remedy that by dealing with a legal preference system. legal immigration. which has no bearing at all on what the problem really is all about. I believe is to indict a people who have been here. who have family members outside. who are still waiting to be reunited. I think it is out of sorts with what we are attempting to do. The basis of the family unit is something on which we have built a firm immigration policy. The gentleman would destroy that by setting this cap. even though. at the immediate time he is not adversely affecting it.