Seventeen, Mr. Speaker. It has been 17 years since illegal border
crossings reached this low level. I am going to come back to that. But
what I am saying is that words matter. And what the President has said
is: we are going to grow the most robust economy the world has ever
seen, but we are going to do it with a legal visa program that makes
sure folks are coming and going in accordance with U.S. law. And simply
that change in attitude, Mr. Speaker, simply that change in
attitude from ``we are going to ignore the law'' to ``the law matters''
has brought illegal crossings down to a 17-year low.
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