Speech #1010042948

I agree totally with my friend from Massachusetts. the Senator that has been working on the issue for 27 years. I find that people come here and begin to talk about the preference system. and they do not know what it is. Like our quota systemhow many countries are there. 168. and we have 270.000 numbers to divide among them for legal immigration. These are things that make me wish I had never gotten involved in this stuff. because you can pick up the New York Times or the Washington Post or the Cody Enterprise. and they will take an article on refugees. and before you are through. they will call them immigrants. If nobody understands that. then TED KENNEDY and I will never get anywhere. along with our friend from Illinois. That is the problem. If you are going to have a bill and raise the family numbers like we did by almost a fourth. it is unheard ofat least in the last 50 years. I do not know if it will sell. but if we are going to do that. then we thinkmaybe misguidedlythat 80 percent of all of those visas should go to the closest family member. Now. if anyone really wants to get in and argue that. I would love to hear it. I see Senator DECONcINI is not in the Chamber. but I want to ask him and Senator HATCH a very simple question. It seems to me the Senators are really asking one thing only. They must want unlimited immigration into the United States. and I would like the answer to that question from both of the participants in the amendment.