it was named after the chairperson of the commission, former congresswoman barbara fromn, a black democrat texas and also a law school professor. under the jordan commission, the issue of immigration reform which studied for a period of about three years, and i had the opportunity of testifying before the jordan commission, and the recommendations of the jordan commission were that we should reduce legal immigration to a 550,000 people a year. that was a significant reduction whenwithin -- from then the level was about 850,000 a year. every declined since then year. they felt that 550,000 a year would be sufficient to take care of business needs for immigration and a continuing and admitting the immediate relatives of u.s. citizens. and thisrecommended, is one of the points my organization also supports, and that is eliminating the category of sponsorship of emigrants by immigrants. in other words, when somebody emigrates to this country and they come in to the country and become a u.s. citizen, they then become entitled to sponsor brothers and sisters. parents and adult children. to putef