Speech #1040190429

But. Mr. Chairman. it takes an act of Congress for local government and the States to cooperate with us on immigration control. It takes an act of Congress to address these issues that are before us in these amendments. So as we run around with a lot of issues of a lot of things we would like to do. that are nice to do. immigration control and management is something that only this body has the right to do as determined by the Constitution. as declared by the Supreme Court. So I would ask my colleagues. rather than finding the excuses to sort of walk away and side slip off this issue. to recognize that they want to justify being involved in all these other issues that are nice to do. but they recognize that the Constitution and the Supreme Court has ruled only Congress has the right to address these issues. Local participation in immigration control can only be delegated by the Congress of the United States. The city and the State and the school board cannot determine those things. If you do not want to have the guts to stand up and say. we want to cooperate with local government. to delegate this right and this responsibility and these authorities. then you should not be in this House or in the other house that believes in the Constitution. because this is a responsibility.