I thank him for that effort. First. let me comment a little bit about the general direction of this legislation. In current law we have what we call chain migration. What happens with chain migration is you come into the United States. and once you become legally here in the United States. that allows members of your extended family to follow you in. We are moving more toward a meritbased system. which is a direction in which we need to move. We cannot absolutely go all merit based. but I do think it is moving us in the right direction because we do have real needs out there. We need to identify those needs in the workplace. If we need to fill those with immigrants. we need to give business an opportunity to do that. On the other hand. probably more important than anything is we must make sure we have accountability in the system so we know who is coming into the country and for what purpose. that is. they want to have jobs or they want to be Americans. We dont want people coming into this country because they are terrorists and they want to destroy our society.
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