Mr. President. Members of the Senateat least a certain limited numberare intensely involved in an attempt to draft an immigration bill that will serve the national interest. I say "serve the national interest" because there are quite a number of special interests. There are the interests of poor people all over the world who would like to come here. interests of all kinds. But at one of our hearings. we had several professors and experts on immigration and the economy. They said we ought to ask what is in the national interest and do that. That can also cause us to develop a thought process that could lead to legislation of which we can be proud. One thing that is not in our national interest is to continue the current policy of immigration. It is not working. It has comprehensively failed us.
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