I think our colleagues ought to be alerted we can anticipate a vote fairly shortly. Mr. President. just in response to my friend from Texas. he is familiar with the fact that we passed the Border Security Act in 2002. The idea was to understand everybody coming into this country. to know where they were. and when they were leaving. We have not completed that kind of circle. but we have made dramatic progress. As of now. every green card. every work permit. every visa is machine readable and biometricevery single one that we have working today. So this is a dramatic shift in terms of dealing with the issue of fraud. which has been talked about here. Now. In order for immigration reformwe have talked with security officials who have all told us it is in our interest. in our national security interest. to bring people out of the shadows. They have all indicated that. We have so many individuals here whose names we do not know.
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