Honduras. El Salvador. on up through Mexico to try to cross our borders. The result is we have. in order to protect our way of life and our standard of living and to protect jobs that need to go to American workers. quotas that limit the amount of immigration. and those quotas year by year are quotas we work with to try to understand how many we can have come into this country from various parts of the world. Let me give some statistics about last year to the extent we know it. Last year. 1.1 million people tried to come into this country illegally from the border of Mexico. up through that southern border. 1.1 million people tried to enter this country illegally and were apprehended. stopped. and not allowed to enter the United States illegally.
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