Chairman. I thank the gentlemen from Michigan and California who just yielded the time to me. It seems that this is the only opportunity we will have. at least in this debate. to tell the Members of the House just exactly where we stand with regard to what is now being passed as immigration reform. We are in favor of immigration reform. but we know for a fact that this bill is not immigration reform. This bill is designed to provide a steady flow of cheap labor to the farmers and growers of the United States and. to boot. those farmers and growers are exempt from sanctions. All other employers in the United States. however will be sanctioned or subject to sanctions provisions if they make some kind of a mistake and hire someone who may be here illegally. Then they can be fined and even suffer the consequences of a provision that will even send them to jail. Now. if anyone can show me where I can find immigration reform in this bill I will have to reexamine the words immigration and reform. To me immigration reform means that we must reform the present system. that we must do something about a Department that is the most discourteous Department in the Federal bureaucracy. In this bill we find that we have a new appropriation of $400 million to reform what they consider to be a situation where we have lost control of the borders. Well. $400 million additional for the Department of Immigration is like spitting in the ocean. That will not remedy the situation. with spending the necessary amount to reform the Department. More personnel is needed so that they can again become a service department.
Keywords matched
Immigration immigration