What the Senators from California and Florida are attempting to do Is to remove what has passed the Congress once. what has passed this Senate twice. what has been included in both Democratic and Republican bills. I suggest this has been a fairly welltested provision. It is clear the vast majority of the Members of this Senate believe that we have been too generous with legal immigrants coming into this country. and I will explain why they feel that way. In fact. the Graham amendment today was tabled. in other words. defeated. on a motion of 62 to 34. So this Is not. frankly. even a partisan issue. as you see. It has very strong bipartisan support. Let me explain what the underlying bill does. what the Feinstein amendment is attempting to change. What we do in this bill is recognize that there are various classes of immigrants. For purposes of simplification. we will talk about three major classes of immigrants. One is what are called refugees. These are people who come to this country who are seeking refuge from political persecution or other kinds of persecution in a foreign country. and they come to our shores seeking help and refuge in the United States. What we say to those people. as the Senator from California referred to earlier. just like the Statue of Liberty says. we are open and we allow those people in. and we do even more.
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