As I said earlier. this is also a major boom to the cartels and other gangs who control Mexicos smuggling networks. It will almost certainly lead to thousands of people who committed crimes in this country gaining legal status. It will also. as I said earlier. punish people who played by the rules and waited patiently in line trying to immigrate to the country legally. It will punish them by putting them in the back of the line. Let me just repeat this because it is important to me. America is the most generous country in the world when it comes to legal immigration. We are the beneficiary of the brains. the ambition. the hard work of people who come here from all over the globe. All of us werentor almost all of us. our ancestors were not born in the United States. We came from somewhere else. Mine came through Ellis Island from Ireland after one of the potato crop famines in the 19th century. So we understand both the desire to pursue the American dream in this country and the benefits that accrue to our country as a result of legal immigration. That is why we are such a generous country when it comes to legal immigration. but the current chaos associated with illegal immigration has a number of very negative consequences. I mentioned a moment ago my State has 1.200 miles of common border. It gets attention every once in a while as it did when this humanitarian crisis involving these unaccompanied minors occurred. but it happens day after day that people are detained coming across the southwestern border from all over the world. I met a young man about 6 months ago when I was down on the border who had emigrated from Bangladesh. I wondered how in the world did he get here from there. There were a number of other Senators and Congressmen with me. We asked the Border Patrol: Can we ask him? They said: Sure. It turned out he spoke enough English.
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