Speaker,
when this debate was going on. It is the same debate that has been
going on in this country for more than 30 years. There were
approximately a million illegal aliens in the United States, as far as
the estimates were concerned, at the beginning of the debate when the
House and the Senate eventually passed the 1986 amnesty act; a million. The discussion was: Well, we can't possibly address these million
people that are in America and we can't possibly deport them all, so
let's make an accommodation to them. Let them stay, give them a fast
track--it turned out to be a path to citizenship--then what we will do
is we will promise America that there will never be another amnesty
again ever.
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