Mr. Clinton understands this. I doubt if Mr. Bush has a clue. My friends, Mexico's people are good people, who have been robbed repeatedly of the just rewards of their labor. While any American President must be ready to help Mexico, we cannot permit any regime to use America as a spillway for the excess population it cannot employ. And we cannot allow to rise within our country a nation within a nation where Spanish is the language and anti-Americanism the ideology, while U.S. taxpayers pay for its schools and services as it swells inexorably towards the Nuevo Aztlan of the Chicano activists' imagination.
Good fences make good neighbors.
As for U.S. businesses that repeatedly hire illegals to avoid the wages, benefits, and protections accorded our workers, they will be prosecuted. And I will use every presidential power to ensure that immigrant children are immersed in the English language from the moment they enter an American classroom. My friends, you in the West know that Mexico is inseparably entwined with the culture and history of this region. But for all that we share, we remain separate, distinct nations. And the nation, said General DeGaulle, is the building block of international society.