LAMAR SMITH and JOHN BRYANT. The steady. patient. and fair way they have proceeded in the processing of a bill under the chairmanship of Senator HENRY HYDEa lovely friend of many yearsis something we would do well to keep in mind as we go forward with our work here. I and my immigration sidekick here in the Senate. Senator TED KENNEDY. will heed their lessons. Mr. President. the people are demanding changeand soonand they are so right. Most immigration to our United States is of a legal nature and. thus. many of the impacts the people find most troubling are due to legal immigration. For too many U.S. workers. the impact of immigration includes adverse affects on their own wages and individual job opportunities. At this timewhen major U.S. employers like IBM. AT&T. and GM are laying off workers by the tens of thousands. when the defense industry has undergone a major downsizing. when we read of the difficulty so many young American college graduates are facing in finding a Job in their own fieldwe must then reconsider some of the increases that we authorized in 1990. before so many of these events had occurred and when certain experts were predicting to us shortages of scientists and engineers. shortages that would not have occurred even if the 1990 increases in immigration had not come about. The current major reform of the Nations welfare system. which we will complete this session. is another reason why we must revise the present system. It is expected that these reforms will add large numbers of unskilled workers to the labor market.
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