If we could have a viable guest worker program. one that we could enforce. then you would lose this incredible attraction that draws people illegally into our country and. of course. all of the associated bad aspects of it that the citizens of my State of Arizona are so intimately familiar with. Of course. it frustrates citizens. Of course. it frustrates the citizens of my State to have so many hundreds of millions of dollars in uncompensated health care costs. to have law enforcement requirements and expenses go up. to have all of the problems associated with illegal immigration. But to say somehow that we are not going to satisfy what is clearly. primarily economic immigrationby the way. the Border Patrol statistics say 99 percent of those attempting to cross our Nations border illegally are "economic immigrants"-then we are going to be faced with a problem. No wall. no barrier. no sensor. no barbed wire will ever stop people from trying to do what is a basic yearning of human beings all over the world. and that is to have better lives for themselves and their families. I hope and believe we will reject the Dorgan amendment.
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99% of those attempting to cross the border illegally are "economic immigrants"