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Byron Dorgan: “Well, where is the illegal immigration going to come from if you have secured the border? If you have not secured the…”

On the recordMay 22, 2007
Well, where is the illegal immigration going to come from if you have secured the border? If you have not secured the border, isn't it the case that what you have simply done is said we are going to have 400,000 people come across the border or come into this country and assume jobs? Do you know what we will do? Let's just call them legal. Isn't there an inherit contradiction in what we just heard--and we will hear again, I am sure--the proposition that we have to have temporary workers because if we do not, people will come in illegally? How will they come in illegally if you have secured the border? And shouldn't you first secure the border in a way that is credible?
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Byron Dorgan
Democratic · North Dakota

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Discussing border security and immigration policy during a Senate debate.

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