I think Americans get it. There was a very loud group who distorted the whole debate. But they also taught us something important. that Government had fumbled and Congress had failed in its responsible approach to a comprehensive. enforceable. immigration law. We ignored it for decades. In ignoring it. great problems had occurred. Not only did we have an unprecedented number of undocumented illegal foreign nationals in our country. but we had allowed industries such as agriculture to grow increasingly dependent on an illegal workforce. Agriculture came to me in the late 1990s and said: Senator CRAIG. this problem has to get fixed. We began to work on it then.
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