So that is the overall picture. The amendment I am talking about does not try to deal with this entire picture. It just looks at the employmentbased legal permanent resident visas. Let me go to a different chart in order to describe the concern I have. Current law says there is a cap of 140.000 persons. or 140.000 visas. that can be issued under the employmentbased LPR categories of our laws. That has been the case now for some time140.000 per year. This includes family. These are people who come here and seek legal permanent status in order to take work. But it also includes their families. Each member of the family. of course. uses a visa as well. So the total number of employees under this system. and family. spouse. and children. does not exceed 140.000. That is what the law currently provides. Now. when Senators McCAIN and KENNEDYthis is my understanding of the history. and I am sorry that neither Senators MCCAIN or KENNEDY are here so they could correct me in case I misstated anything. but my understanding is that they concluded that we needed to reform the law. and part of the reform that we should adopt was to clear out the backlog and make more room for additional immigration under this employmentbased LPR system. I agree with that. Clearly. that is one of the purposes of this legislation and one of the effects of this legislation.
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