Ronald Reagan: “What happened to that other 40 percent?”

If we ever closed the door to new Americans, our leadership in the world would soon be lost.

We have not come this far through lack of strength or any weakness in our resolve, nor has there been anything inevitable about what we've achieved.

It was a message of peace.

Rather than making them or talking about putting up a fence, why don’t we work out some recognition of our mutual problems, make it possible for them to come here legally with a work permit, and then, while they’re working and earning…