That is unbelievable to me. So the whole promise of the law that was changed 20 years ago to shut off these jobs for people who are not in our country legally was a complete failure because there was an abject lack of enforcement. Now we have a piece of legislation on the floor of the Senate dealing with immigration. and we are going to go through this process again. We are told there are 11 million to 12 million people who have come into our country illegally. Some have come in recent years. some have been here a long while. and some have been here long enough to have children and grandchildren. So the question is: What do you do about that? Then we have people come to the floor of the Senate and they say: Well. lets do a new immigration bill. Yet doing a new immigration bill without effectively finding ways to shut the border to illegal immigration will have us back in the same Chamber in 10 years or 20 years saying: Now what do we do about the next 10 million or 20 million people who are here illegally? Let me tell you why I think this is so important. No. 1. I said when I started that I think it is important that this be dealt with in a very sensitive way. I dont want people to in any way suggest that this debate diminishes or demeans immigrants. We have some wonderful people who have come to this country. That is how I got to this country. I wasnt alive when my ancestors came here. but they came over from Norway. and most Members of this Senate are here in this country because someone had the courage to get on a boat and probably land at Ellis Island. So lets understand that. first of all. about immigration. But lets also understand that the issue of legal and illegal immigration is different. There are legal ways to come to this country and there are ways to get into this country illegally. What we have built in this country is very unusual on the face of the Earth.
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