Speech #990183189

I do not know whether it is fair to say we are going to wink and allow people to come across our border merely because they live in the country closest to us. and yet know that someone from the Philippines must wait 8 or 10 or 12 years to come through the legal process. Someone from Ireland may have to wait that long. Someone from Mexico who follows the law may have to wait 10 or 12 years. The other point I would make is that of those illegal aliens. while the largest number were Mexican nationals. we had nationals from 55 other countries. It is now an international scheme to get into the United States. In Hong Kong. in China. in other parts of Asia. in Western and Eastern Europe. in all parts of the world today there are folks working to trade in people.