He said "with deep gratitude for the privilege of living in this great country." This little boy who followed his daddy peddling fish. who went to school. became a successful businessman and then died. wanted in his will to remember this country and left $5.7 million to the United States of America "with deep gratitude for the privilege of living in this great country." This country did not become this great country by accident. "We the people." the framework of our Government. a wonderful Constitution. a series of initiatives that created a body of law. initiatives in the private sector. the genius and the entrepreneurship of inventors and investors and business men and womenit is a wonderful place. But we have obligations. As I indicated earlier. if we had no immigration quotas we would be overrun by millions. tens of millions of people who want to move from where they are on this planet to this spot because this is the land of opportunity. We have a process of legal immigration. That process needs to work. First and foremost. we need border security. Second. it seems to me. we need to be sensitive to find a way to deal with the status of those who have been here a long while. Third. and most importantly. we ought not decide to bring legislation to the floor of the Senate that says: On behalf of those big interests. big economic interests that want to hire cheap labor through the back door--even as they export good American jobs through the front doorwe ought to say this provision needs to be stricken.
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Without immigration quotas, the US would be overrun by millions of people.