Year after year, that is unresolved. The vast majority of the people
who are in our country illegally didn't cross a border illegally. They
came with a visa, they overstayed it, and they never left. We are never
asking the questions: Who is here, who is not here, and where do those
connections come from? What I would like to find is a way to establish a group of
foundational issues that are commonsense solutions to the obvious
immigration issues that we face--and find common ground. We will have
disagreement in this body, but we should be able to find common ground
on immigration issues that we can all look at and say: That is a
reasonable way to do it. Probably, every Member of this body would do
it a little bit different, and we would have a different set of
preferences, but we should all agree it should be done. We have to
solve the obvious issues, and there are areas of common ground to be
able to do it. Quite frankly, the President of the United States gave us quite a
gift about 3\1/2\ months ago when he said to the DACA Program: That is
an administrative program. It should be a legislative issue. I am not
going to renew that any more as an administrative issue. That needs to
be done in Congress. For the first time in a long time, Congress has a deadline to be able
to deal with immigration. That is actually a very good gift because
this Congress has punted the immigration issue year after year without
a deadline to get it resolved. Now we do have one. That deadline is in
early March.
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