Mr. President. I wish to speak in support of the amendment of Senator GREGG to deal with the lottery provision that is currently in the code involving immigration. We have many odd and curious provisions in our immigration law. but I suppose the lottery provision is one of the most odd and most curious. It seems to me to be unprincipled. without any real thought as to how it would effect a policy that is good for America. What kind of thing is this. that you do a lottery to let people come in from around the world? His approach would be to say: Lets focus twothirds of those slots on people with higher skills and higher education. I want to speak in favor of that and say. really. we need not only to do this twothirds. but it would be better. in my view. to do the whole lottery program in this fashion. In addition. we need to reevaluate entirely this bill which is before us today to ask ourselves with some thoughtfulness how we can make future immigration policy beneficial to our country. It ought to benefit us. Everybody who comes here. no matter how poor or uneducated. according to the witnesses we heard at our one hearing. is benefited economically.
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