Senator CORNYN and I introduced this amendment. which is very simple in its terms but we think very important. The essence of it is to say that criminals should not participate in the temporary worker program and path to citizenship program that is allowed for under the bill that passed out of the Judiciary Committee. It seems rather elemental that whatever program we have for immigrants to this country. that they be people who have worked hard and played by the rules. as some people characterize it. that they be hardworking people who. other than perhaps coming into the country illegally. have been lawabiding citizens. That seems fairly elemental. As a matter of fact. in the 1986 law that many have described as amnesty and few think worked very well. there was a specific prohibition of that law applying to people who had been convicted of a felony or three misdemeanors.
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