It was our State that experienced the viciousness and the seriousness of the Victoria deaths. Out of that particular tragedy I authored alien smuggling legislation which I am proud to say was included in the 9/11 legislation passed almost a year ago. We are very serious about border security. but this underlying bill does not speak to border security. What it does do is it provides the enormous burden of unfunded mandates and it is impracticable. It cannot work. What it does. Mr. Speaker. and you will hear us say this over and over again today. it criminalizes 11 million individuals. as the number seems to be of undocumented individuals. in this country. That means that they may be here. taxpayers. children in school. recognizing that they may have come to this particular place undocumented. But it criminalizes them by their very presence. That means they have to be mandatorily put in jail.
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