Senator SIMON. and I have not compromised to get to this point. I can assure you. As Senator KENNEDY has said so beautifully. if anything were easy in this line of work. then we would mess with immigration reform more than four times a century. It is tough stuff because it gets caught up in emotion. guilt. fear. and racism. I have said that dozens of times. People are tired of ittired of having to deal with it. But things pop up. We have done some racist things in immigration reform in our history. Senator KENNEDY was in the forefront of correcting that in 1965. We try not to do it any more. We think of ourselves as being sensitive. But you can imagine my anguish in going through the illegal immigration bill and having minority groups donging on my head all day and all night telling me it was discriminatory and racist and everything else. I said. "What is more racist than just doing nothing and watching millions of people get exploited in the United States?" Well. they did not have any answer for that. I have been through that one.
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