If the gentleman will yield. I just think it is very important to take to heart the reallife experience of our friend from California and say that it is shared by so many immigrants who came in our open door. came into this country in a legal. orderly fashion. and it is not our intent to harm those who would immigrate to these shores legally but those who would come in through surreptitious means. those who would come here to enjoy the fruits of the labor of American taxpayers without being involved in the system in stark contrast to the fine example so many legal aliens set for us. whether they are immigrants from immediately south of our border who come here legally or so many folks who have immigrated here from Asia and from Europe. so many people from throughout this world who have come here legally seeking a better life and true freedom for their families. No one denies those who would come here legally an opportunity. But yet as the gentleman from California mentions. we must take action that is reasonable to stop the flow of those who would reach these shores illegally to take advantage of a system which we have proven tonight has failed miserably and lacks the very compascion the champions of that failed system so claim extravagantly in their rhetoric.
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