Madam Chairman. I yield myself the balance of my time. The other point that we would like to make. and there are so many. but the managers amendment punishes amazingly battered immigrant women who would suffer some very harsh consequences when they are frequently forced by their batterers to use fraudulent travel documents. Under the Violence Against Women Act. battered immigrants are entitled to selfpetition for immigration status. independent of their abusive U.S. citizen and lawful permanent residence spouse. So this would be a huge step backwards for those of us who have been working in this area. So I urge and I hope that because there has been insufficient attention given in the committee and since we did not know these were going to come up. that the managers amendment will be turned back and that we be given an opportunity to examine this more than a dozen objections that we raise.
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