There isn't, unfortunately, anybody else to do this work except for
the 100 Members in the Senate and our friends in the House of
Representatives. So our tendency has been to just avoid it and to put
it off, and we don't have that luxury anymore because they are no
longer protected. Every day in my State there is another family broken
up because of the deportation that is going on, and I don't think there
is virtually anybody who is a Member of this body who believes the
answer for the Dreamers is that they should be deported or that
families should be split up. We may have disagreements about how to get
there, but that is what the last 4 months of negotiation have been
meant to sort out--to find a middle spot where we could land and where
we would get not every vote in the Senate but more than 60 votes in the
Senate and where we would get a bill passed in the House of
Representatives. I think we found it, and one of the things we have
done is to meet the four requirements that the President said he wanted
when he had us over to the White House: One was DACA. That is the
modified Dream Act. One was border security. We have got $2.7 billion
of border security in this bill. One was ending what he calls chain
migration, which for the DACA population we do by saying that no parent
can be sponsored by any child. And he said that he wanted to get rid of
the diversity lottery, which we do. He may not love every part of it.
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