Speech #1040203846

So. yes. there is a need. Second. the proposal which Is in S. 1664 would only apply to those persons who arrived under the migration agreement of 1995 in the status of parolees. According to the statistics of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. since that agreement was in effect. approximately half of the Cubans who have arrived in the United States did not arrive as parolees. They came as either refugees or as visa immigrants. Under the reading of S. 1664. those persons who came under the migration agreement of 1995. would not be eligible to adjust their status because they did not come in the specific category of a parolee. So the anachronism is in Havana. not in the laws of the United States.