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China News Digest - US Regional Services (Bo Xiong) --------------- Date: Sun, 7 Jan 96 03:21:42 GMT From: hq@ifcss.org Message-Id: <9601070321.AA28388@CENTER.NET> To: pbs-l@ifcss.org, council-l@ifcss.org Cc: china-nt@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU, ccnl@utarlvm1.uta.edu Subject: HQ NR #7077: U.S. Senate Immigration Subcommittee Visit on Simpson Bill Status: R * * * N E W S R E L E A S E 7077 * * * _________ January 7, 1996 __________ [[[[[[ [[[[[[[[[[ [[[[[[ [[[[[[[ [[[[[[[ [[[ [[[ [[[ [[[ [[[ [[[ [[[ [[[ ______ [[[ [[[ [[[ [[[ [[[ [[[ [[[[[[[[ [[[ [[[[[ [[[[[ [[[ [[[ [[[ [[[[[ [[[[[ ______ [[[ [[[ [[[ [[[ [[[ ____ [[[ [[[ [[[ [[[ [[[[ [[[ [[[[ [[[ [[[[[[ [[[[[[ [[[[[[[ [[[[[[[[ [[[[[[[[ &^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^ IFCSS Foundation, Inc. 733 15th Street, NW Suite 440 Washington, D.C. 20005 Tel: (202) 347-0017 Fax: (202) 347-0018 &=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&= U.S. Senate Immigration Subcommittee Visit on Simpson Bill The IFCSS President Xing Zheng, joining a group of the coalition colleagues, visited the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Immigration, Senator Simpson's office and had a talk with his senior advisors Friday afternoon at Hart Building. Richard Day, Chief Counsel and Staff Director, and John Ratigan, Counsel of this Subcommittee met the visitors and the discussion lasted for about one hour. Working for Simpson, Richard Day has been recognized as a key designer and thinker of the Simpson bills, both S 269 and S 1394. The talk began with the statement on several sensitive points in the bill by lawyers of American Immigration Lawyers Association. Visitors stated that immigrants have been making great contribu- tions to this country;immigrants contributed more to the societies and consumed much less social welfares, than native citizens according to statistic data... Dick Day described the background of drafting the bill, and emphasized that American people wanted a piece of legislation like that to control the messy situation of both illegal and legal imm- igration... The IFCSS representative explained to Dick Day that so-called chain immigration, proposed by Senator Feinstein, was merely a theory but not a fact according to some surveys, especially those from our CSS community; this legislation had caused confusion in high-tech industries and higher eduation society, upset education and business leaders, foreign professionals and students. The sole outcome would force the foreign professionls out of this country... Dick Day contended that the bill would not be, intentionally, for interests of certain special ethnic groups ... it was for nat- ional interests! Americans will replace those foreign workers when foreigners leave, and Americans' jobs should be protected. Foreign students could not take the temporary working status (H-1B) as a bridge for obtaining the permenant residence... "We are right talking about national interests... To protect the imcompetency might not be a good idea for maintaining competitive strength of this country.... " remarks made by Xing Zheng, but Day interrupted at once : "your organization and members sent hundreds of mails flooding my office everyday, and I know your points of views very well...but some others also send mails and letters here, totally different from yours..." The atomsphere went a bit tensely at the moment, but relaxed very soon. It was not right time and right place, though, with right persons, to debate Simpson bill. The IFCSS representative handed over one copy of the writing, addressing all points this Federation is concerned with, to Day before the talk was over. It is presumed that the discussion of S 1394 will start in the middle of January, but there might be problems with schedules. Therefore, it is also very likely that full Senate Judiciary Comm- ittee will consider it on January 22. Meanwhile, Congressional Judan Committee, appointed by President Clinton, may release a report which disfavors foreign professionals and students sometime next week, and we are keeping an eye on it. The IFCSS headquarters appeals to all concerned CSS to write to or contact the committee members. Please make full use of IFCSS' e-mail account: Simpson_bill@ifcss.org, which leads to all Senators of this commi- ttee, when you write and send anything to it. Thank you for your attention, and have a nice weekend. ********************************************************************* * PBS-L is IFCSS's news distribution list for individuals. 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