It included provisions to reimburse the States their costs for detaining and imprisoning criminal aliens. The list goes on. It was a tough bill that said. we are going to enforce the immigration laws of our country. We did not stop there because we have the reality of an elephant in this room. in this country: the 12 million people who live here. Under the leadership of Senator MCCAIN and Senator KENNEDY. we came up with a program that would have brought these 12 million people out of the shadows through a system of penalties and registrations that would have applied to them.
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