The gentleman from Texas can talk from now until doomsday and say that this is not. but all you have to do is look at what the bill does. it makes anybody who is here before January 1. 1982. eligible for legalization. and what my amendment does. which brings it back to 1980. sets another category for those before 1977. and requires an English language skill or a participation in a program to learn English. as suggested by the gentleman from Texas . So in those regards. it is less generous than the bill before us. At the same time. does it destroy legalization? What I have operated under from the very beginning is the assumption that the American people have some common sense here. When a poll was taken in my State. the California field poll. in 1982. the basic question was. "Do you support deportation of those who are here illegally?" Absolutely. Seventyfive percent of the people said that statewide. Broken down into different groups. whites. 77 percent supported it.
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