He has the opportunity on the oped page of a major paper to make his case. and we are so seldom offered that same opportunity by the Washington Post that I thought I would at least use the floor of the Senate to describe accurately what Mr. Novak was trying to write about. He talks about an amendment I offered to the immigration bill. He calls it a "poison pill" in the title. and then he says: Dorgan pushed his "killer amendment" by voicing the Great Plains populism of his own State. That is sort of sniffing down your nose at the Great Plains populism that exists in some parts of this country. Let me describe what this amendment was. The immigration bill is a bill that is complicated. it is- controversial. it is a very large bill. and it has a lot of moving parts to it. One part of the bill deals with the issue of bringing in guest workerspeople who arent now here. who are living elsewhere in other parts of the worldbringing them in to take American jobs. Now. I have great difficulty with the immigration bill as it is written. My feeling about immigration is we have a problem with illegal immigration. That is true. we certainly do. and we ought to try to address that problem. I think the first way and the thoughtful way to address that problem is to decide we are going to provide bordei security and border enforcementjust do first things first. First of all. provide border enforcement. and then we can do the other things. That is not what this bill does. This bill brings in about six or eight moving parts. and in order to sign up support for itfor example. in order to get the U.S.
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