Mr. Chairman. I rise today to urge my colleagues to join me in supporting the Family Unity and Employment Opportunity Immigration Act of 1990. H.R. 3000. This legislation is desperately needed to revise family sponsored immigration. and to expand employmentbased admittance to the United States. Mr. Chairman. thousands of legal residents of the United States who were granted amnesty under the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. are parents of small children that are excluded from this policy. I am appalled that the Immigration and Naturalization Service regularly deports these children. many as young as 3 years. who do not have adequate documentation. separating them from their parents and families. Often. there is no family waiting to care for them. in essence these children become orphans. If their parents leave the United States to assume their responsibilities. they will lose their legal permanent resident status. and thus yield the right to petition for citizenship.
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