He has worked long and hard on this subject matter. I am pleased to have participated in this effort. I want to say the Senator from Wyoming and the Senator from Massachusetts have devoted a good chunk of their career. and perhaps their political hides. to the immigration issue. It is not an easy issue. I have great admiration for what they have done. even though I have disagreed with them on a number of occasions. Be that as it may. the amendment before us will counter the negative effect that S. 358 has on family preference immigration. S. 358 has in it a provision which threatens to eventually eliminate the family preference immigration into this country. The United States has a long tradition of immigration based on family preference. We hear about that and talk time and time again about the family. that we are a Nation that is going to do something about the family. whether it is day care or whether it is child support laws or what have you. we are talking about the family. This is what this amendment is all about. S. 358 attempts to place some kind of limits on legal immigration. Some kind of a cap which we hear referred to. but the cap really is on the first. second. fourth and fifth. preferences. not a cap on immediate relatives. There is no cap on that. and I defy anybody here to point out that there is a cap on immediate relatives.
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