If we have a shortage. it is a shortage of Jobs. and a shortage of training. It is not a shortage of people. I submit to Members that there is something cruel about the notion of saying to those unemployed in our country. that they have to compete even harder to find that job because we will have 300.000 more people here next year. and the year after that. and the year after that. to compete with. that we are going to permit to come into our country with new immigrants. I dont see how that can be justified. The authors of this bill also tried to justify. on the basis somehow or another that we need to increase diversity in this country. Yet. the provisions of their bill make special allocations of additional visas for people from Europe. when in fact. AngloEuropeans are the majority group in this country already. and it is very difficult to understand how bringing more of them into the country could in any way increase diversity when that is the majority group already. I submit to Members that the bill before Members today is a patchwork of special interest pleadings from various groups who want to see the immigration laws changed. in order to pursue their own particular goals of their own community. I understand that. However. we have the obligation to make policy with a national purpose. to make policy in the national interest. not simply to respond to group after group after group that calls on this Congress and asks Members to change this law because of their particular longings.
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