Some are even supervisors of companies. If you look around America. the meatpacking industry. the chickenprocessing industry. virtually all of the manufacturing and production. you will see these people as a dominant part of that workforce. I look at the great bread basket that is California. the largest agricultural State in the Union. and I know at least 600.000 of our workforce are undocumented and illegal. I know they come here because of the absence of any hope or opportunity or ability to make a decent living where they were living before. I think this whole dialog we are having puts an enormous obligation on Mexico to begin to understand the needs of their people and do something to help them become economically more upwardly mobile because this is certainly the main problem that leads to the crossborder immigration that is illegal into our country. So we have tried to solve this with a comprehensive bill. I think it makes sense. It says to everybody that you have to earn this legalization. You have to get out there and work for at least 6 more years. You have to report in. but you have a card which identifies that you are in an adjusted status. you are not subject to deportation. You can raise your children. You can volunteer for community activities.
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