From: srzhang@mth.msu.edu (Shuren Zhang)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: Re: Chinese Nationals Came Before 4/1/90 Will Have Greencard.
Date: 9 Apr 92 20:30:57 GMT
Organization: Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University

In article <1992Apr9.060105.7913@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> xiong@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Bo Xiong) writes:
>Disclaimer: I speak for myself from my own authorized account :-)
>
>If it's a SCC joke, it must have gone too far :-)  Don't celebrate now :-)
>
>>Many people have asked me the source of the news. It was
>>published in World Journal on 4/4.
>
>Well, I guess not many people carefully read the context of the WJ report
>before they jumped up :-)  Would anyone translate its FULL TEXT into English
>and post it to SCC?  I don't have time nor the energy/motivation :-)
>
>And I don't have time to get into detail discussion, IMHO, it's not worth
>in-depth discussion at all IN CURRENT STAGE.  Here is something brief:
>
>If you compare it with last year's Morrison bill that was killed in
>Senate Justice Committee, you'll know the only MAJOR difference between
>this PROPOSED BILL and the Morrison bill is that the immigration quota
>(1,000/year) for those CSS will come from other country's quota (700)
>and China's quota (300).
>
>Remember how the Morrison bill got killed?  It's because Senator Simpson
>insisted on that the quota for CSS be deducted from China's quota only.
>
>Now, 700 will be deducted from other countries' quota (in order to NOT
>increase worldwide immigration quota specified by 1990 Immigration Act), all
>other nations will go fighting/lobbying against Chinese in the Congress :-)
>
>>One netter has verified this news from the senate. The bill
>>has been passed and is now the Public Law #101-649.
>
>This must be a joke :-)  According to April 4 World Journal, the proposed
>bill was passed by Senate Immigration and Refuge Sub-committee with FULL
>Yes Vote, but someone told me that the sub-committee comprises only three
>Democrats, and Senator Simpson is not there any more, no wonder all three
>voted yes :-)
>
>Now the PROPOSED BILL goes to Senate Justice Committee (?) and it's
>difficult to predict what will happen to the bill.  Remember last
>year, some Senators requested to attach some items/articles to the
>CSS protection bill, such as adding "protect Tibet refugees", "protect
>those from China who were forced to abort" and "protect those escape
>from XXX conutry" (now must be Haiti :-) ... ...
>
>And, if it can pass Senate Justice Committee (with those possible
>attachments :-)  It still needs to pass the Senate and the House and
>finally will be sent to the president (hopefully not Bush :-)
>
>So, keep your finger crossed or send letters to your Senator/Congressmen
>as World Journal said that IFCSS president Zhao haiqing calls CSS in the
>US to help in lobbying the bill, I wonder why IFCSS hasn't said anything
>about the bill ... :-)   So, SCCers please keep an eye on next IFCSS News
>Release(s) :-)
>
>>Good luck.
>
>Sleep well first ... :-)
>
>This posting serves as the "brick that will drag/draw jade out" :-)
>I won't have time to say anything on the subject in the near future.
>
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>
>Bo Xiong in Chicago


MOST of the F-1 students who came to US after 4/11/90 will lobby againt
bill.  I feel sad about this.