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I am a productmy two sonsmy grandfather who died several years back. I remember only too well. he came across the border from Brownsville and for 40 years he lived in this country always looking over this shoulder but always producing. always a taxpayer. always providing the best for his family. So for the amnesty I am grateful. but I want to make it very. very clear that this bill as it stands today is not to stop illegal immigrants from coming into the United States. The policies that we have for our neighbors south of our border are horrendous. We have always taken a mainana attitude toward every one of those countries south of our border. This migration is different. These are not the migrants that came across through the Statue of Liberty. these migrants are walking. It is the first walking migration that this country has ever felt and it will continue. I say that because where hunger is. hunger will try and find an escape.