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Brian Bilbray: I call on everyone saying that they want to see the good things continue to go across the border and to stop the bad…

On the recordNovember 9, 1997
I call on everyone saying that they want to see the good things continue to go across the border and to stop the bad things; let us finally sit down and work on internal enforcement. Do not try to do it all on the borders or all in the Canada neighborhoods or in the Mexico neighborhoods of those of us who live next door to it. Let us get together and say all of America should be participating in controlling illegal immigration. Not just those of us on the frontier who just happen to live along the border, but all Americans should join in this. Let us take this debate and accept that there is a problem here and in Mexico. Back and forth, we need to have a check system. In Canada we need it. But we also need a check system on every employer and every social program in America.
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Brian Bilbray
California

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Discussing the need for internal enforcement to control illegal immigration.

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