How can we sit here today in the United States of America and know there are millions of people we do not know. or what their backgrounds are. who are here illegally. how can we be satisfied that our national security is taken care of when the borders are as porous as they are today? This national security issue is an inescapable force that will ultimately lead us to have the right resolution to dealing with the issue of our broken borders. We also have a system of immigration which is simply broken. It is not working. What ends up happening is people point a lot to the border to the south. Mexico. as though that is where the issue of immigration. which has become so contentious. is rooted. Yet in reality. when you talk to the Irish who live in New York or in Chicago or other places. there are many undocumented Irish who live in those communities. There are undocumented people in this country who come from over 140 countries all around the world. Indeed. no matter how big a wall we build. no matter how tall the wall. no matter whether that wall is as big as the Wall of China. the fact is. we have a system inside of our country that is not working because about 40 percent of the people who are here in an undocumented status actually came into the country legally. and they have overstayed their visas. So we have an immigration system within our country that simply is not working. Finally. there are the moral and human issues that are at stake. including the human and moral issues with the 12 million people who live here in the shadows of our society. Our quest was to bring those 12 million people out of the shadows of darkness and pain they currently live in. into the sunlight of our society.
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