They take existing law. the right of a United States citizen to claim their parents as part of an immediate family. and do away with that right and then supplant it with a limitation where we will give you a limited right to bring up to. collectively across the country. 40.000. By saying parents are no longer members of the immediate family and imposing unreasonable caps on the amount allowed to rejoin their U.S. citizen children. we are not only breaking up families. we are also effectively creating an entirely new backlog. even as we are trying to eliminate it with this legislation. This not only changes the spirit of our immigration policy. it also. once again. deemphasizes family structure . all without a single hearing on the issue of family or the value of family in our immigration system in either the 109th or the 110th Congress. This is not only about the rights of potential immigrants to enter the country. Rather. more importantly. this is about the rights of United States citizens who wish to live with and possibly care for their parents. As it stands under the legislation. the right of those American citizens to be reunited with their parents is virtually totally undermined. From a moral perspective. this undermines the family values I so often hear my colleagues talk about. I have heard the words of the late Pope John Paul who. clearly. from a moral perspective. said: Attention must be called to the rights of migrants and their families and to respect for human dignity. I have heard it from President Bush when he said: Family values dont end at the Rio Grande. I guess when it comes to your parents. it does.
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