I appreciate the question of the distinguished Senator from Wyoming. I do not believe that we need to know the number of actual immigrants each year at the expense of familyconnection preference immigration. I do not believe that we need to know the actualor excuse me. I do not believe that we need to set an annual number. if it means that we are going to cut the current level of current family preference consideration drastically. which GAO says we will do by 1999. to zero. I have no problem with uncapped immediate family immigration and a set number each year of familyconnection preference immigration. We have had that system for some time now and it has worked well and families benefited. I believe in family reunification. If I understand my friends and colleagues from Wyoming and Massachusetts. they do. also. So I think it is important and it reflects traditional American values. I note that even under S. 358. we are never completely sure how many people come into the country. although I recognize it is unlikely to occur in a short period of time in theory. If immediate family relative immigration ever begins to exceed 480.000 we will not know how many family immigrants will enter the country because immediate family immigration remains uncapped. So there is no way we will know anyway. So I think that answers the distinguished Senators question.
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