We charge hospitals with providing care. physicians. and nurses and other health care providers with providing care to victims. to people who are sick. We charge our school teachers with teaching. Indeed. the Supreme Court of the United States has ordered that we. all of us across America. not just in my district. but in yours too. educate the children of undocumented workers in America. It is suggested by thJs amendment that our schoolteachers must now. however. call time out in the classroom and provide a due process hearing to determine the legal resident status of someone who is in that classroom. I hope not. A lot of us along the United StatesMexico border. for example. as I suppose many of my colleagues from Boston. or elsewhere in the country understand. and New York and Chicago understand that what the issue here is. is that we know we cannot stop immigration. period. Someone once said you show me a country with secure borders. and I will show you a totalitarian state. That is not what we want. nor what we seek. I think that the Presidents statements yesterday were right on the mark. We do need to address the issue of immigration in the United States. We must not make those who immigrate legally suffer from those who immigrate here illegally. Yet I would say to my colleagues that this bill is not the proper vehicle on which to attempt this maneuver. Whether this is a maneuver intended to kill the bill. or whether it is a maneuver we are going to attempt on every bill.
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