Subject: Our Talk with Dr. Zhao Haiching

From: [email-masked] (Yonghong Li)
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 93 13:24:08 CDT

To:		LAD network members

	From:		LAD network committee

	Subject:	Our talk with Dr. Zhao Haiching

	Date:		August 28, 1993

Dear netters,

	Dr. Zhao Haiching called me today and we spent ~25 
minutes on the phone. This is a summary of our talk.

	First I addressed our problems:(1) DED (2) undocument 
alien. (3) World Quota. (4) His leadership on these campaign.

	Next, Dr. Zhao told me the current situation: 

(1) We have passed the golden time to push LADs into 
world quota. Before the Interim Rule, we even had a 
chance to push LADs into CSPA. But due to different 
reasons (you can find them from CND-US news in the June 
and July, but one main reason is that there was a 
fighting among the CSS community), we could not achieve 
this although Dr. Zhao and NCCA worked hard on this. 

(2) Now, we still have a chance to push the world quota 
issue, although the current situation is not good to us. For 
example, alien smuggling and objection to the 
immigration among American people.

(3) Compared to the situation before CSPA, it is more 
difficult to put the CSS community into the same boat. 
For example, ECers, LADs and LCers are conflicting to 
each other. Even IFCSS is not willing to fight for LADs 
since they thought CSPA was over. 

(4) Summer is the laziest time in white house. We can 
not expect that everything goes very fast.

Finally, we asked him for his comments on our current 
work and his suggestion:

(1) We should keep our close collaboration with new comer 
fellow students and IFCSS. This is very important.

(2) We should put DED issue before the World Quota 
issue or do both at the same time. The China EB-3 
window is open until Sept. 30, we should get all the 
DEDs filed. Otherwise, these people will have a hard 
time. We can work on the world quota issue any time. 
But DED must be done before Sept. 30. 

(3) Undocument alien issue is beyond our manpower.The INS 
has to include the IIers otherwise these people can 
accuse the INS since it is against the main point of 
CSPA (humanitarian reasons). The INS has started to 
control the advance parole. It is too late to exclude old 
undocument alien from the CSPA. Another reason is that our 
community will fight against each other and we can not get 
more support. We hope that new comer fellow students will 
be calm on this issue.

(4) It is good to write the petition letter. If we have a
big number of signatures on it, it will make a difference. 

(5) He did not have other comments on what we should do 
now or next. 

Before hanging up, we talked about future 
collaborations. We exchanged our phone numbers and we 
will keep close touch with each other.

Yonghong