As the gentleman from California has indicated. the Census Bureau has that information. In each decennial census they go out and ask whether or not each person was born abroad. If the answer to that question is yes. then they ask whether one is alien. naturalized or born of naturalized parents. They compute it and the information is available by county. In 1965 when we passed this legislation. the illegal alien was not a hot question in the country. We did not realize the numbers involved. I have heard the estimate that it is as high as 15 million persons. The estimate by the INS is that about 2.5 million illegal aliens a year come into this country. So it is necessary to change the law of 1965 in this regard also because of new information. As I said earlier. aliens tend after they come here to congregate together.
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