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John Hope Bryant: “I think it is extremely unfair and extremely inaccurate for the advocates of this amendment to describe the bill as…”

On the recordMarch 21, 1996
I think it is extremely unfair and extremely inaccurate for the advocates of this amendment to describe the bill as antifamily. It is not antifamily. What it does is recognize what the Jordan Commission observed, and that is that we have chain migration and we cannot continue forever allowing everyone who is allowed to come into the country legally to bring in brothers and sisters. That is really what is at stake here. The same recommendation was made in 1981 by Father Hessburgh's commission. It is not a radical proposal. What is radical is the idea of doing nothing, which is what they advocate, and letting the population increase to 500 million people in this country.
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John Hope Bryant
Texas
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Addressing concerns about an amendment related to immigration policy.

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