Mr. Speaker. the greatest surge of illegal aliens in the history of our country. the United States. is pouring across our Nations southern border. Over 2 million will be detained this year. 1.8 million were detained last year and double that amount entered through the border. So it is expected that perhaps another 2 million this year will not be identified and will remain in this country. Some say that as much as 10 percent of our population is now made up of illegal aliens. We are too prone to believe that with all of the publicity on the beautiful Statue of Liberty that all of the people who immigrate to our country come through New York City or Boston. but this is to let you know of the tremendous surge of people coming across our southern border who have no documentation whatsoever and are beginning to pose a real problem to the security of our Nation. Mr. Speaker. no country in the world has allowed so many to infiltrate our borders as we have done. This poses a great threat to our entire economic system. allows for a tremendous amount of drugs to enter our country illegally and take jobs away from our own citizens. Something must be done about this. It is an outrageous situation and if an omnibus immigration bill does not pass in this Congress. then we will need to do everything in our power including what every other country is already doing to protect their borders and that is to use our military forces. if needed. I am introducing a bill today that would allow Federal agencies to request help from the President when the President does certify that our borders are out of control. My hope is that my bill will provide the impetus to prompt timely action on the omnibus immigration bill. I have placed a caveat in the legislation that if the immigration bill does pass Congress. then the bill to which I and the cosponsors on the bill have placed in the hopper today will not take effect. We. in Congress. must take action or this country will be brought to its knees by the chaos resulting from illegal immigration.
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Illegal aliens are pouring across the border, posing a threat to national security and the economy, taking jobs, and bringing drugs.