Mr. President. today I am going to speak about immigration. I am going to touch on many areas. and address many topics within the general subject of immigration. I am not going to throw a lot of statistics and economic projections around. though I shall use some. Today I want to talk about policy. about the underlying philosophical rationale for immigration to the United States. about what we want to accomplish through immigration. what we actually are doing. and what we should be doing. At some future time. I shall go into detail on the disputes over percentage points among economists and demographers. but that is not my purpose today. The disagreements among economists and among demographers do not arise primarily over technical points. over mathematical variations in their models. These disputes arise over the underlying assumptions. the philosophies which they work from when they construct their models. There are many solidsounding statistics and figures that are batted about in the field of immigration: How many illegal immigrants live in the United States. how many enter each year. what the cost of refugee assistance is. what economic progress is made by recent immigrants. how many immigrants. legal and illegal. can be absorbed by the United States.
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