But let me tell you. it is under a very narrow. narrow. narrow rule in which many of us are not going to be able to discuss some very critical issues in there. The issue that I wanted to talk about. and if we do not get to discuss this with an amendment. I hope people vote against this whole bill. is the portion of what we are doing to the immigration law. I do not even think it belongs in this bill. but we are severely modifying the immigration law to apply in a whole new way. Let me tell you what we are doing. Right now the immigration law says you cannot emigrate to the United States unless you prove that that law. the laws of the land. are being discriminated In how they are applied against you. There is a discriminatory application against you because of your beliefs. and. therefore. you are not being treated equally. Lets take it into some neutral area that many people wont get as impassioned about. Lets talk about conscription. If a person lives in a country that has universal conscription and you are upset about conscription and do not believe in the draft. you cannot emigrate to the United States on the basis that you dont believe in the draft and you are living in a country where there is a draft. so. therefore. you have the right to come here. You could come to the United States if you had been out leading the movement against the draft and because of that your country put you in jail or because of that your country did all sorts of other discriminatory acts toward you. Then you would be made a political refugee because you had been out exercising your political rights in your country and they had made a target of you. That is how we have enforced the law. However. in this bill. we are changing it vis-&-vis population policy. and we are saying that if a person does not like the population policy of the country that they are. in. they can then come to the United States because they feel that they are going to be discriminated against.
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