31.   By early this year, the battle lines over legislation cutting legal immigration were drawn, with an alliance of conservative and liberal groups opposing the effort.

32.   Castro has long pushed Washington to expand legal immigration from Cuba, partly because it would help serve as a safety valve for discontented Cubans to leave the island.

33.   Clinton also supports lowering legal immigration limits.

34.   Clinton has refused, although he has offered to resume stalled U.S.-Cuba talks on legal immigration matters at a low government level.

35.   Channeling the flow into large-scale legal immigration, he said, would help both Cuba and the United States.

36.   Closing the doors to legal immigration, of course, will increase the likelihood that more people will try to come here illegally.

37.   Conversely, therefore, the best way to defeat cutbacks in legal immigration is to keep them from piggybacking on a measure dealing with illegals.

38.   Cuban-Americans are permitted to send money for legal immigration expenses and humanitarian needs.

39.   Congress is about to grapple with a plan put forward just the other day by a federal advisory commission that would reduce legal immigration gradually by one-third.

40.   Does it matter that the candidate who advocates a five-year moratorium on all legal immigration himself employs a South American housekeeper?