multi-religious egypt can move forward. a big decision today from the supreme court on the arizona statute and everyone thinks of illegal immigration as a domestic issue, whether you build a fence or don t, what we do with the people in this country. but it s also foreign policy, is it not? it s foreign policy because obviously other countries want to know that we have consistent laws on the books about who is in and who is out, particularly it s important to mexico. but really, greta, i think it s more important because it s the essence of who we are. we are a country of immigrants. we are, in fact, saved from the sclerotic demographics of japan and europe because we are a country of immigrants. we have always been able to attract the most ambitious, risk taking people here, and that s what has kept us young and innovative. this goes to the core of who we are and i long said one of my real gets about our time in office in the bush administration is that we we shall able to get the
forward. a big decision today from the supreme court on the arizona statute and everyone thinks of illegal immigration as a domestic issue, whether you build a fence or don t, what we do with the people in this country. but it s also foreign policy, is it not? it s foreign policy because obviously other countries want to know that we have consistent laws on the books about who is in and who is out, particularly it s important to mexico. but really, greta, i think it s more important because it s the essence of who we are. we are a country of immigrants. we are, in fact, saved from the sclerotic demographics of japan and europe because we are a country of immigrants. we have always been able to attract the most ambitious, risk taking people here, and that s what has kept us young and innovative. this goes to the core of who we are and i long said one of my real gets about our time in office in the bush administration is that we we shall able to get the comprehensive immigration refo
google. and these are the most ambitious people in the world. if we don t get our immigration policies turned around, we are going to have the same sclerotic demographics of japan. we better do it and do it quickly. i hope we don t play politics with it. there was a bill in 2007 that george w. bush and john mccain and john kyle and teddy kennedy all wanted and we couldn t get it done. but we are a country of immigrants. that s our strength. and i hope we can get to a place that we remember that. my problem with immigration is if we don t control our borders, you know, look, i ve been to the border five times, five different places but i m not worried so much about the person who wants to work and get a better life for him and his family, but somebody can walk across our border wanting a job and so too can somebody who wants to destroy american citizens. you are absolutely right about that. borders that are permanentable
people in the world. if we don t get our immigration policies turned around, we are going to have the same sclerotic demographics of japan. we better do it and do it quickly. i hope we don t play politics with it. there was a bill in 2007 that george w. bush and john mccain and john kyle and teddy kennedy all wanted and we couldn t get it done. but we are a country of immigrants. that s our strength. and i hope we can get to a place that we remember that. my problem with immigration is if we don t control our borders, you know, look, i ve been to the border five times, five different places but i m not worried so much about the person who wants to work and get a better life for him and his family, but somebody can walk across our border wanting a job and so too can somebody who wants to destroy american citizens. you are absolutely right about that. borders that are permanentable where you have corruption, and