I shall now answer that suggestion briefly. and later during the course of my argument I shall hope to avail myself of an opportunity to go more specifically into the answer I should like to give the eminent Senator from Washington. If we legalize that which is now illegal. if we permit to stay in this country aliens who are here illegally. who have violated the law every day they have remained here illegally. then we will encourage immigrants from every part of the world to seek refuge. to seek opportunity. to seek work and labor within the confines of our land. because those now living in foreign countries can say. "What do we care about the laws of America? We can go there and slip in and kill anybody we want to or kidnap anybody we want to and get away with it. America has already said it is all right for anybody to steal into the country. to perjure himself into the country. or to enter the country in any other illegal manner. such as by the purchase of passports. If the Congress lets them do it. and makes that legal which has been illegal. we can go in and we will get another Congress to enact another such law."
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Immigrants will break laws and commit crimes if illegal immigration is legalized.