But unfortunately. Mr. President. the history of immigration laws tells us that once Congress acts on immigration. it is often decades before it acts again. And when there has been the potential for discrimination in our immigration laws. we know that discrimination has developed. I spelled out the history of that in my opening statement 2 days ago. So in fairness to those minority members of our societywho will surely be the most directly affected by the provisions of this legislationwe ought to deal with their fears of discrimination now. and not wait until after they develop and without any easy statutory mechanism to deal with them.
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