Speech #1040203004

It will do that. It will assure that that occurs. It will reduce the availability of visas for relatives who are likely to have their own separate households. That is the source of so much of the phenomenon of chain migration. Let me conclude my remarks by showing you. since we seem to be so enamored of charts--especially charts which I think have some devious value that I have noticed in the past monthsbut since we like charts. then you are going to be fascinated with this one. Here is what is happening In our country with regard to legal immigration. I am not talking about illegal immigration. This is a hypothetical illustration of chain migration which I have been speaking about now for about a year. This Is what the Jordan Commission was speaking about for much longer than that--chain migration through the family preference system for two generations of parents and their children. Here the process begins when the immigrant arrives. The immigrant arrives with a spouse and a child. All of them become citizens after 5 years--father. mother. child. These people are immediate relatives. and they come without number. Under my legislation. there would be a cap at 480.000. which has never been achieved as yet. So then this person. the father. has brothers who wish to come. one of whom Is married. They then immigrate as siblings of a citizen. This person has siblings who are married. She also has a widowed mother.