Speech #1040204737

The rest of It. as Senator PAUL SIMON says. is like eating steak without teeth. You cannot do it with what you have put in this bill. If you think you have solved the problems of illegal immigration by the Border Patrolput 20.000 of them down thereif you think you are going to solve it by this or that and all the things that are in this bill. forget it. because over half the people come here legally. You will not even touch them unless. ah. with the new Border Patrol we will give them the power to now go up and ask visa overstayers if they are visa overstayers. How is that one for discrimination in America? You are going to go up to people who look foreign under this provision. when we have nothing else that gives us any power or authority to do anything. and find out whether people are visa overstayers. I assume they will most likely be people who look foreign. So. remember. that one will take place. It is a curious thing that the people and the institutions who want to do the most to hammer illegal. undocumented persons will give us the least hammer. I do not understand that and I would like to have that explained to me in the course of the debate. How you can come to subcommittee and full committee and the floor and add layer upon layer of things which have to do with tightening the screws on illegal. undocumented peopleand that is what you have done. and that may assuage all guilt. it may take care of all painbut. then to take every bit. every tiny crumb left of how to do something about illegal undocumented persons in the United States. and that is to allow some kind. some kind of more counterfeitresistant. more verifiable. identifiablewhether it is through the phone system with a slidethrough or some kind of revised Social Security card or somethingand then to go home and tell our people that. here in the United States of America. we finally did something about illegal immigration? And a year from now or 2 years from now you find out you could not get it done because you did not take the final. step. which was minuscule. and that was to do something about the breeder document that Senator FEINSTEIN described so powerfullyyou did not do anything with that document. did not do a thing with it. You did not do a thing with the most stupefying thing that happens in America. where you look at the obituary list. and if you are between 20 and 40 years old you really look at that.