That is not a meritbased system. That is a system where we do it for humanitarian reasons. Fundamentally. the principle of our Nation. as we develop a new immigration policy. should be to serve our national interests. I believe we have that within our grasp. This step of building border barriers is important for two reasons: One. it is critical to creating a lawful system. No. 2. it is critical to establishing credibility with the American people because they rightly doubt our commitment. based on history. to do the right thing about immigration. They doubt that we are committed to doing the right thing. This is a good step to show them that we are. and then I think as we talk about some of these more difficult issues. we can have some credibility with our people when we ask them to make some tough decisions about how to handle immigration in the future. Mr. President.
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