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We can secure internally. we can modernize our visa system. we can deal with the issue of the 11 or 10 million that are here. it's an issue of will. luckily now i think there's bipartisan will to get it done. the question is, will there be an agreement, i think there will be an agreement. >> when are we going to see your bill, the house bill? >> as we said, our concern is -- it's got to be done this year. but our concern is to get it done well, not quickly. >> so a week, two weeks, six months? >> i'm very optimistic that our group is going to work and get back from the recesses we've been talk...

'86 legalization. so, no, there has to be a real, not lip service, a real serious order and interior security component of this. we do not want to be -- we don't want to go through this effort to be in the same place five or ten years down the road. and therefore we have to learn from the mistakes of the past. part of it is border security. part of it is interior security. we have to modernize the visa system, the visa program so people can legally apply to come to the united states. which is why all of it has to be fixed. it is broken from a to z. we have to fix it. >> and i think the differe...

Republican colleagues we're going to do at the same time. >> here's the issue. it's not only that. because that is true. what you just said, that's exactly what happened after the '86 legalization. so, no, there has to be a real, not lip service, a real serious order and interior security component of this. we do not want to be -- we don't want to go through this effort to be in the same place five or ten years down the road. and therefore we have to learn from the mistakes of the past. part of it is border security. part of it is interior security. we have to modernize the visa system, the vi...

Without border enforcement. >> bret: if you get agreement of the group of 8 have you hurddles to go through on the committee, on the senate floor and the house before it gets to the president's desk. >> that is true. it sounds -- it's not going to be that it won't be met with great challenge along the way. the way that senator schumer and senator graham described it, republican and democrat this weekend is that all of the substantive issues have been dealt with by the gang of 8. and that the last guest worker, most contentious provision had been worked out between these business and labor grou...

Working on? do you believe there will be a bill on the floor in april, that it will be voted on and likely will pass? >> i don't. but i don't doubt that it will be brought up in april. at least that's what chairman leahy had said. he's going to bring it up immediately, apparently. nobody's seen it. we don't know what's in it except the group that's been meeting. he's going to bring it through committee and in the shortest possible time. senator reid said last week he'd like to see it next week, apparently because he wants to pass it in the three-week period that we have. this is too quick. the...