More importantly. it vitiates.-it takes awaythe right of the U.S. citizen to have them claimed because they lose it. They have a petition pending under existing law. and yet that petition is gone with the flash of this bill. So the legislation. as currently drafted. says that if you legally apply for a visa after May 1. 2005. you have to compete under an entirely new system. It is an arbitrary date that was picked out of the thin air. Lets think of how fundamentally unfair that is. Imagine you are a lawful. permanent U.S. resident. You have fought for your country. you have shed blood for your country. and in some cases. you may have even died for your country. In fact. a noncitizen. a legal permanent resident 01 the United States. Marine LCpl Jose Antonio Gutierrez. originally of Guatemala. was the very first. the very first U.S. combat casualty in the war with Iraq. Had he not been a combat casualty under this bill. he would not have been allowed to claim his family.
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