I think 5 minutes would be adequate. Mr. President. again. this is one of those areas of dealing with immigration and welfare and deeming provisions. Let us understand what deeming is. The sponsor brings you here to the United States. and his or her income is deemed to be yours. You as a sponsor are responsible for this person coming to the United States. for their assistance. their welfare. And you cannot come to the United States at any time if you are going to be a public charge. At any time you become a public charge while you are still in this category. you do not come on as a naturalized citizen. You must be selfsustaining. That has been the law since So. again. we are at one of these impasses where I am surprised some of these have been successful. This is an ancient ritual. It is about people who say we want to do something about legal immigration. we want to do something about illegal immigration. and we want to do something about people who misuse the systems. But we do not. Now. in the last Congress. we increased the deeming period for SSI to 5 years.
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