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Negro Leagues Baseball Museum  Location: Washington, DC    Mr.
KENNEDY. Mr. President, I would like to take a few moments of
the Senate's time to try to put this legislation at least into
some perspective, as someone who has worked on legislation
dealing with immigration for some period of time, so the
American people can have an understanding of what this debate is
really all about.  I think all of us understand what has been
well stated here, and that is our borders are broken and porous.
Ten years ago, we estimated that about 40,000 were coming into
this country illegally and we were catching maybe almost half of
them. Now the estimates are from 400,000 to over 1 million, and
we are catching 5 or 10 percent of them. We have increased
expenditures by $20 billion in terms of law enforcement and
building fences and increasing border guards 300 percent over
the period of the last 10 years, and it doesn't work. It has not
worked, and it is not working