And yet they also know that they can build their constituencies if they can just take anybody into their system. under their wing. and they know in their heart what they are doing to their own system. We here in the Senate have acknowledged the importance of knowing English on many occasions. And let me refresh your memory on this one. I recall the very first successful amendment to my original immigration bill in 1982 was a provisionit was a senseoftheSenate provisionto adopt English as the official language of the United States. It passed big. The vote was 78 to 21.
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