And what happened? That 140.000 per year increased to 700.000 per year. The problem of 3 million illegal aliens has increased to at least 12 million. We do need to study history and see what the impact of this amnesty program in this bill will be. This threat is particularly grave. and I think it is absolutely certain that this will exacerbate the problem for the following simple reason: In terms of border security. everyone--everyoneon the floor of this body. everyone agrees that true border security cannot and will not happen overnight. The best case. if we are sincere about it. if we follow up this debate with adequate appropriations. the money. the manpower. the resources. the focus. the best case is that we will get a handle on our border in several years. perhaps 2 to 3 years. absolute minimum. But. of course. the other elements of this bill would be passed into law and would go into effect immediately. That is repeating the exact mistake of 1986. It would be one thing to consider an amnesty program down the road after we have acted on border security and proven that we have executed meaningful border security. I dont think I could be for it even in that circumstance. That would be one thing. But what this bill does is something far different and even far more dangerous. What this bill does is put that program into effect now. immediately. move forward with that amnesty track immediately. even though everyone agrees. best case. we will only have meaningful border security in several years. So we establish the magnet to draw more illegal aliens into the country before anyone pretends that we have adequate border security or workplace security. That is an even clearer reason that this is a big mistake and repeating the mistakes of the past. particularly in the era around 1986. on a much grander and. therefore. more troublesome scale. Another point I wish to make is the overall numbers these provisions will lead to because I think there has been a lot of fuzzy math and a lack of attention to detail on this question.
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