Mr. Speaker. rightly or wrongly. HispanicAmericans and other immigrants to our country feel a growing bias against them. U.S. citizens living in my district who were born in Latin America have expressed their growing frustration and fear with harassing INS raids which treat all immigrants as suspects. they are being denied the presumption of innocence. A SalvadoranAmerican woman living in my district. who has been a resident and a citizen for more than 20 years. never leaves her house without her U.S. passport. for fear that she may be harassed or detained by immigration or other law enforcement authorities. H.R. 1428 threatens to intensify the growing feeling of alienation among immigrant U.S. citizens. without assuring that it can easily. reasonably. or fairly accomplish its objective of ballot integrity. For these reasons. I must oppose H.R. 1428.
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