So. while the concept and the compassion that is contained in the Kim amendment is worthwhile. I am taking the floor to say that it does not correct the basic exclusions that have been made to this legislation. I do not believe that we can stand on the floor of the Congress and comment about family reunification. and now important the family is. and how allowing the people who become new Americans to bring their families into the United States is an important step integrating and moving them forward toward their full responsibilities as Americans. To deny them the opportunity to reunify their family puts us back to the period when many Asians were not even permitted to come into this country because of the 1924 Exclusion Act. which was only repealed in 1965. Until 1965 persons from the Asia Pacific perimeter were refused entry and again under this bill will not be able to bring their families. They have been waiting for so many years to bring their families in. and this Congress is going to exclude them again.
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