John Hope Bryant: “The harm is simply this. The diversity program, in my opinion, is a…”

On the recordMarch 20, 1996

The harm is simply this. The diversity program, in my opinion, is a bad program anyway, because it is really a scheme to let a lot of white folks into the country, because some folks do not like it if there are a lot of people coming in from Asia and the Hispanic areas of the world. Now, that is not your amendment, that is not your fault. That was put in the bill in 1991, and the law in this bill carries it forward. This amendment that the gentleman is putting in here is going to guarantee that nobody comes in under that category, except the very nondiverse group, and that is principally folks from Ireland, folks from England, and so forth like that. I suggest to you it does not solve the problem at all. These people are going to learn to speak English as soon as they get here.

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Discussing the implications of a proposed amendment to the diversity visa program.

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