I must tell the Members that a number of those people probably still cannot communicate extremely well in English but. by God. I must tell you. you look at the faces of each and every one of those people and not a one of them would have said to you that there was a prouder American in this country at that time. To believe that there are people in this country who are saying. "I wish to legally emigrate and become a lawful permanent resident of this country." in essence saying. "I want to permanently reside here." and believe that these are folks that are saying they do not wish to learn English I think is myopic. I do not believe that we can really claim that we are interested in what the Statue of Liberty has always stood for if we take that type of position. Even more to the point. this amendment deals with those immigrants who are coming in based on employment offers from a firm in this country or those who are coming in from countries where we see smaller numbers of people emigrating. so we want to make sure that there is diversity in the pool of people that come into this country. To believe that someone who wishes to get employment and has an offer of employment is not interested in learning English. to me really seems very contradictory to what the initiative of that individual is. The diversity requirement. we want to make sure we get folks from everywhere.
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