Speech #1030066232

In fact. I have nothing against the participants. As a matter of fact. the bill states very clearly that the participants of national service will not be illegal immigrants. I understand that. What this amendment does do is that the organization itself merely has to have a written policy that the organization does not operate with illegal aliens. My perfecting amendment offered clarification that it does not affect churches with the right to offer those services to illegals. and would not prevent them from doing that. Second. if someone has the policy. and someone serves soup. as my colleague said. to an illegal alien. that is not going to exempt. under this amendment. that organization. However. if they have a policy. one of the intents of this is to stop services to illegal immigrants under this plan. I also agree that the Presidents initiative is not enough. We need to go further with more policy on illegal immigration. but it is a start. This is another start. I hope that my colleagues on both sides of the aisle will recognize this and allow us to have this amendment. that merely states that. an organization would have a policy of not allowing illegal immigrants. They can still have the people that work there. the service workers that are not illegals. but the organization itself has to have a policy. That is not beyond reasonable request.