Most of us would be peasants in almost any other country in the world. We are extraordinary only because our country is extraordinary. Now. with the best of intentions. this amendment says that we have immigrants coming to America and by getting here and getting a foothold and getting a job and building a life. that they are reaching out as each of us would do if we came from somewhere else. and they are trying to bring their mama and their daddy and their sisters and brothers and their cousins and their aunts to America. So what? Let me just take that one point and develop it for a moment. if I may. Of all immigrant groups in America. to the best of my ability to ascertain. the identifiable group that uses things like the fifth preference in the immigration laws. the people who are the most focused on their extended family. the people. as immigrants to America. who have reached out the most to try to bring their families to America. are people who are from the Indian subcontinent. Probably more than any other immigrants. at least if one looks at the use of things like the fifth preferenceand I am not an expert in this area. but a fifth preference is a preference where you are trying to bring somebody in who is not. by the conventional definition. that close kinthis is a group that has used this provision of law that this amendment tries to reduce. Let us look at a subsample of this groupIndian Americans. No. 1. of all identifiable ethnic groups in America.
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