Pete Domenici: “People say you are going to do immigration reform before the border is secured. How are we going to do that when the law…”

“People say you are going to do immigration reform before the border is secured. How are we going to do that when the law says you throw the rest of the bill away until we have secured the border, and then it tells you what border security is? That has been worked on day and night. That has been done to try to calm so many thousands of people who have been indoctrinated to believe that the only thing we should do is make the border secure. So all they are going to ask you when you go home is: Did you secure the border, Senator? And, Senator, I heard from such and such that you didn't secure the border. Senators ought to carry around a piece of paper that has this border security provision on it, and you ought to take it out and read it to your constituents. They deserve the truth. They want the truth. We are not trying to do anything to hide what we did. We are trying to make sure they know it. I mentioned the name of a Senator from Arizona. He is not here, but Jon Kyl will be here tomorrow, so all the Americans out there will understand that Jon Kyl was one of the Republican who spent literally hundreds upon hundreds of hours as a dedicated leader on this issue, with Senator Kennedy on the other side. Senator Kennedy will acknowledge--if he hasn't already--that without Jon Kyl we could not have this proposal. People should know that Senator Kyl knew this was the chance of a lifetime for this great country.”