The American people demand enforcement first. Call it putting the cart before the horse. but those who talk about a guest worker program have it exactly backwards. What we should do is enforce existing laws. close loopholes and then and only then engage in a debate about guest worker programs. indeed. this debate about border security. national security. illegal immigration. and the euphemism that accompanies it of undocumented workers. an Orwellian turn of phrase if there ever was one because many of these alleged undocumented have documents galore. and should we also point out that under the existing framework we have visa programs literally from A to Z under the existing legal framework. but again back to the situation at hand. A fair question could be posed in this fashion: If people are not obeying existing laws. what makes us think they would obey any new laws? So Enforcement First offers a comprehensive approach saying that this government shall enforce existing law and that we shall work to eliminate loopholes that exist that result in the gaming of our system. that result in the drain on taxpayers and that deny this fundamental truth that even those who may profoundly disagree with us who preceded us here in the well certainly have to embrace and that is that this is a Nation of laws. Therefore. if we are a Nation of laws and a Nation of immigrants. immigration should occur within a legal framework. not through the machinations of illegal schemes and scams that threaten our national security. Why do I say that? Well. one need look only so far as the testimony in open session in the other body from our former colleague Porter Goss. now Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. joined by others. who offered the testimony that their major concern is that someone meaning to do harm to this Nation might utilize our porous border to do so. to come here illegally.
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