Do my colleagues think we can deport the 8 million to 14 million who are here working in hotels and construction and as aids around America? Yes. the system was broken in order to allow the growth of such. but many of these people now have family members that are citizens and who have invested by buying homes and paying taxes. So it is important to recognize that if we were to work and try to deport the 8 million to 14 million. only about 32.000 are done a year in terms of deportation hearings. All of them are subjected to appeals. You would be centuries trying to deport 8 million to 14 million who are here. and maybe that number is not even the number. So my legislation. H.R. 2092. the Save America Comprehensive Immigration Act. provides for the reunification of families by increasing the visa number. It also provides for the reuniting or the citizenship of children. It protects women against violence. It provides for the border security provisions. as I have mentioned. and it fixes this broken system of deportation. So that if you are in a deportation proceeding because of some small offense you created as a teenager. you would not be deported to a place you had never seen in your life. We need diversity visas. helping Haitians and Liberians. Mr. Speaker. I hope we have a full debate on immigration. and I am delighted that the American people are commonsense and reasonable people. They know that immigration does not equate to terrorism. that in fact we can have a full debate. fix the broken system. work with those who have come to this country for opportunity. secure our borders. and fight against terrorism. but not condemn immigrants who are here. hard working. For many of us. many of us. some came in the bottom of the belly of a slave boat. but many of us came first to this country as an immigrant.
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