Speech #980214565

I wish to suggest to my colleagues that this final option is not only the most practical. but in light of our growing deficit. in light of our unemployment. it is our only option. We must restore a cap or a ceiling on legal immigration. and I therefore ask you for your support. Let me summarize a couple of points that have been made in the debate so far. If you take someone. my colleagues. who is an illegal or of undocumented status. legalize their status. moving them then to the naturalization window 3 to 5 years later. depending upon whether they stay unmarried or not. then grant them citizenship by naturalization. you then. with respect to the argument on family unification. which really is not technically germane to this amendment but might be germane to my amendment No. 34. you look at the function of bringing mother. sister. brother. father. and/or their spouses and their children begotten overseas. and look at a chain migration problem that could amount to as many as 70.00070.000 who would be able to come here in the next 10 years legally by virtue of amnesty alone if it should be a part of this bill on final passage. So if Members are interested in doing something about this problem. I suggest that especially for those of my colleagues who support amnesty. they should be willing to support the cap that is proposed by the MoorheadScheuer amendment as a way of getting our borders under control.