Mr. President. I wish to commend those who have worked on the immigration bill. I know their hearts are in the right place and they have attempted to come together to solve a very critical issue for our country and they are to be commended for their efforts. I understand that if we call up an amendment. it will be objected to. and I think that is unfortunate. As the country sees. if we are going to have an immigration bill. then we need to have a real. full debate on all aspects of that bill and each Senator should have opportunities to offer amendments. I think the bill has a lot of good in it. I think a lot of positive things have come through. However. there are two or three critical errors I believe that are incorporated in the bill. Quite frankly. one of them is the bills plan. in terms of guest workers and managing the load of the Z visa holders. There is not the capability out there right now to do that. I have an amendment which creates a real trigger. and that is what everybody in this country wants. The reason there is a stir in the country about immigration today comes from the very fact that we have had laws on the books that we havent enforced. When you have a free society and you have laws on the books that are not enforced. you get all sorts of untoward expectations that come about out of that. The No. 1 expectation that has come out of that is the Amrerican people dont trust us when it comes to immigration. I believe we have to earn back that trust. The way we earn back that trust is to secure the border.
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