We will give those jobs to Americans first. And before employers may seek guest workers. under our legislation. there has to be a showing that the jobs could not be filled by Americans. We have tackled. in the committee bill. the 11 million undocumented aliens. candidly. as best we could. We pride ourselves on. being a nation of laws. and those who are here undocumented have come into the United States in violation of our laws. And now the question is. what do we do? We do not want to have a fugitive class in America. We do not want to have an underclass in America. To contemplate. to even theorize about going out and taking 11 million people into custody is an impossibility. And if you took them into custody. they have to be detained before they have a deportation proceeding. Where will you detain them? Where are there detention facilities? Where are there beds? Where are there accommodations to keep them for deportation proceedings? So if we have a realistic expectation that these undocumented aliens will have to come forward. there is going to have to be a program which will encourage them to come forward. We are not going to go out and arrest them and find them. And they have to know there is consideration for their plight. even though they are here without complying with U.S. law.
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