The American people understand that. Indeed. I say to my colleagues that the American people have understood fundamentally and correctly the immigration question for 40 years. They have asked Congress and they have repeatedly asked Presidents to make sure we have a legal system of immigration. But that has not been accomplished. We have not responded to those requests. Now we have reached an extraordinary point in our history where we have over a million people apprehended annually coming in illegally. and probably. according to many experts. just as many getting by who are not apprehended. So it is time for us to confront and fix this problem.
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