Mr. President. it is with great pleasure that I join the distinguished senior Senator from North Carolina in offering this amendment to the immigration bill presently being considered by the Senate. I want to make it clear that this amendment does not reduce the national level of 600.000 contained in the KennedySimpson bill. The HelmsShelby amendment would increase immigration in the independent category and would hold the overall level of family based immigration levels at current levels. The HelmsShelby amendment would increase the present third and sixth preferences in excess of 35.000. I strongly believe that one of the objectives of our immigration policy should be to increase the number of immigrants who would come into this country because of greater skills. This Is in our national interest. The HelmsShelby amendment would also retain the points for English language that were included in the point system in the original version of the bill.
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