He has done more than his share to see to it that we arrived here today at this point and can move ahead with a very difficult bill. with some very difficult propositions being put forth. and I commend him for that. Let me say to those who are listening. I still want. at some point before we close debate. probably within the next 5 or 6 or 8 days. to talk to the Senate about my family and the whole history of how we got herehow we survived the immigration laws. which were very complicated 50 or so years ago when I was a little kid. They were so complicated that my mother was arrested by the Federal Government because they said she was not a citizen. She was arrested right in front of all of us children. only to find out there were some technical problems with her efforts to become a citizen. We had to sit there and watch her march off. as some people talk about happening to them today. But today I want to talk about where we are with a complicated bill and what should happen tonight. First. many Members worked hard and long with two Cabinet members to weave together a very interesting bill to manage illegal aliens and aliens who want to come to this country to get ahead. as my folks did when they got on a boat and went to France and ended up in Albuquerque from the little town of Lucca in northern Italy. They came and followed the laws of that day. Others want the same thing. The important thing to know is that relevant laws. and what has happened to immigrants. and how those laws have been applied to those people. is in shambles. Americans know that. Every day they tell us about something happening on the border. and then they remind us of those things because they are very upset and angry citizens.
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