Jon Kyl: “Let me finish making this point. Because what we are talking about with the backlog requires two points of…”

“Let me finish making this point. Because what we are talking about with the backlog requires two points of clarification. One, that backlog will be cleared up; those people will get their legal status eventually and, in the meantime, as my colleague points out, they are here already, they are already unified, they are not suffering apart from each other. Second, it is important to note that the Simpson amendment grandfathers all of those people who came, I believe it is before May 1988--the exact date Senator Simpson can clarify--so that we are really not talking about in any real numbers creating a hardship for those adult children who would want to be reunified under the third priority.”