No. he does not want to take us over the jumps again and none of us wants to go. We know the situation. although I think perhaps those of us who live on the border inescapably have come to the conclusion that we really cannot wait much longer before the situation deteriorates into something very ugly. This is a nation of immigrants. Ironically. we are the richest. strongest. most resourceful nation in the world precisely for that reason. But no nation. as he has told us many times. can absorb without limit immigration. legal or illegal. I tell you that this year. there will be detected. detained. and apprehended in the San Diego sector of that border alone over 600.000 people. For everyone detained. at least one is getting through. This is not a situation that can simply be ignored. We cannot simply continue to experience massive hemorrhaging of illegal immigration. 0l 0100 What the Senator from Wyoming has said is that the time has comesome of you may not remember that at my first opportunity I voted against his bill. I really was not certain that it was the answerI am absolutely certain that the time has come at the very least to test employer sanctions to determine whether or not they can be effective. because. Mr. President. there is not anything. else. and if that does not work and if the Mexican Government does not restrain illegal immigration on their side. then we have very few and very ugly options. So I hope that we listen when the Senator from Wyoming asks our cooperation because time is not on our side. In the time that I have been in the Senate. the situation has reached such a deteriorated stage that I am truly alarmed at what further delay will bring.
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