The vast majority of them are doing it legally. But at the same time. there are people crossing that border into the United States illegally. We need better border enforcement. smarter border enforcement. using the best technology available today. Some of the suggestions we have heard I think are perhaps in answer to a problem of 100 years ago. but building a wall around the United States is hardly going to stop the immigration problem. Over half the people currently in the United States undocumented did not enter illegally across the border. They came here legally. and because their visas expired or there were other circumstances or changes in the paperwork that they filed with our Government. they are not presently documented or in legal status. So this concept of building a fence or building a wall seems to me to be nothing more than a symbolperhaps an unfortunate symbolfor a country as great as America. Let me say a word or two about the bill that is going to be debated on the Senate floor for several days. perhaps through next week. It is a bill which addresses our immigration system in America. Most everyone agrees: This system needs to be changed. It is not fair. It is not a system that we are proud of because it doesnt deal with the serious issue of how many people are in the United States not in legal status--undocumented people. One of the comments made several times during the course of the debate by my colleague from Alabama was that the bill coming out of the Senate Judiciary Committee creates amnesty. What is amnesty?
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