We have a kinship immigration system not a merit based one. There are certain categories of immigration that don’t have quotas, e.g., the spousal visa. The Indians are placing a lot of pressure to admit more of them as permanent immigrants. We need to reduce substantially legal immigration from about 1.1 million to about 300,000. During the period 1925 to 1970 we averaged 195,000 legal, permanent immigrants a year.
I am for decreasing immigration of any sort actually. I don’t think we need them, frankly.