Speech #990268535

I would like to thank the gentleman for this opportunity to at least have a little dialog back and forth with regard to this immigration bill. We want to make it understood that the opposition. at least my opposition. and I know the opposition of the gentleman from Texas. is based on the fact that the immigration bill is not directed toward solving the problems of the illegal. nor is it directed in an effort to try to solve the problem of immigration as a whole. I will be happy to work with the gentleman from Texas in bringing in a bill that deals only with immigration reform. that we use an intelligence approach. and we will do everything that we possibly can to see to it that the various organizations. Hispanic organizations. in this country take a part in the drafting of that bill. so that that becomes an acceptable bill. I only hope that it will be an acceptable procedure for the chairman of various committees that will handle that particular bill. That is the only obstacle that I see in the way of finally passing an immigration bill that makes sense.