Speech #1010216585

I think. from the standpoint of hardships unintentionally created there. But the problem with the bill basically is the thrust is wrong. A lot of us believe in the appropriate immigration reform. We think there needs to be an opportunity for seed immigrants to come to this country. I have been on the Immigration Subcommittee a number of years and fought through the major immigration battle that resulted in the bill in 1986. I think that is probably the one most glaring point that needed to be made. but this bill does not address that problem. in my opinion. correctly. Instead of simply saying. OK. because of the fifth preference where you have enormoos numbers of immigrants being consumed and brought into this country to have family unification with extended brothers and sisters becasue they eat up so many of these numbers. instead of saying. OK. we recognize that fact so we are going to add "X" number of new legal immigrants in a new category or carve out a category for skilled workers. seed immigrants. this bill goes about completely changing the preference. changing the whole system that we operate under in a way. that I think. is detrimental to the system and to the orderly progress. in terms of getting the kind of mix in this country of legal immigration that we need. As the gentleman from Texas also pointed out. it adds too many new numbers. I do not think we need to be bringing in that many.