Italy. Ireland. or whatever the home country. My own family and the families of my Baltimore neighbors were simply not complete until the brothers. sisters. and children of the original immigrant were fortunate enough to join the rest of the family as Americans. This feeling is just as strong in our newer immigrantslargely Hispanics and Asianswho are worried that they will not be able to fulfill the same dream. And they are right. The General Accounting Office tells us that under the committee bill. in a few years. the number of family preference visas will total zero. The HatchDeConcini amendment preserving the current level of 216.000 family preference visas was a step in the right direction. but that number will be sadly inadequate in the near future. For this reason I feel I must oppose the bill.
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