Therefore we would not have as many illegal entrants. And. therefore. we could afford to raise the number of legal entrants. So the Senate and the House in their wisdom. before the occupant of the chair and I came to the Congress. decided that what they would do. since we were going to have so many fewer illegal immigrants. was to simply raise by almost a quarter of a million the number of people who could come here legally. Of course not only have we had more legal entrants every year. but illegal immigration has also risen. It is the combination of both of these numbers increasing that has resulted in the substantial majorities of people surveyed. regardless of which survey you look at. who say we need to do something about the problem. both problems. We need to get a handle on controlling our borders. We need to make it harder for illegal immigrants to be employed and receive welfare benefits. And we also need to reduce somewhat the number of people coming into the country legally. You can argue about where the numbers should be.
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