Speech #990079775

The President of the United States has put the full force of the White House right from the first moment of his incumbency into legislation that would shore up our borders. What he has said. and which the gentleman confirms. and again I commend the gentleman for it. is that it is no longer just a question of a policy that has to be dealt with. It is now a question of national security. because the unprecedented flow of illegal aliens within our country. whether it be 3 million or 30 million. as the gentleman has stated. constitutes a problem of national and domestic security. Even if we did not have any trouble articulating the problems of jobs and the identity of them. their very presence in our midst. unaccounted for. not on the Social Security rolls. not on the accountability rolls on which every American appears in one way or another. that means that we have an internal security problem. Coupling that with the national security problem. which the gentleman just said. putting all that together. it does appall me. as it does the gentleman. why the Congress of the United States. throughout all these intervening years when the problem has been growing and festering and getting worse and worse. has not acted.