I thank the gentleman from California for adding to this subject matter in that way. A piece that I left out was that the 66.1 million that would have been legalized by the Senate version of amnesty last year happens to be. and I believe coincidentally. the sum total of all Americans who have immigrated into the United States and become naturalized. most through Ellis Island. but done so legally. We are talking about doing that in one fell swoop. So. in 1986 it was a 300.000. maybe a million number. That was a great big piece to try to swallow and get our brains around. In 1995. before the 1996 election. there was an accelerated effort. especially in California. to naturalize a million people so that they could go to the polls and vote in that Clinton/Gore election. And we all know where the incentive was. on which side of the aisle that was. That was perhaps 1 million in 1986.
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