Legality in gaining entrance. not illegal across the border. earning the legal position by earning your legalization. Then we have the enforcement provisions. In the United States. if employers are going to hire undocumented aliens. then we have 5.000 individuals who are going to be trained and equipped to be able to go after employers who are going to attempt to violate the law. The temporary worker gets the biometric card. comes up and presents it to the employer. and then we know he or she is documented. If not. then we know he is undocumented. and then that person is going to be subject to penalties. It has never been tried before. but it is a local process and a legal system. What many of us are saying here tonight is we have a total package that talks about the border. talks about the temporary worker. talks about law enforcement. and talks about earned legalization. That is the package. That is the package that came out of the Judiciary Committee 12 to 6. Not bits and pieces. not just border security like the Republican leader had or like the House of Representatives had. It garnered 12 members of the Judiciary Committee. Republicans and Democrats alike. in a bipartisan way. after 7 days of hearings. 6 days of markups. and scores of different amendments. What Senator REID is talking about is why not let us have a vote on that particular approach to the challenge that we are facing on immigration? There are those who just want law enforcementfine. But why is it that those who worked. and worked hard. and looked at this and studied it. and studied hard. and after days of hearings and a lot of workwhy should we be denied the opportunity to have a vote on the total package?
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