Speaker. if I had a dollar for every time the Republican leadership promised a Member something and failed to keep that promise since 1995. well. I would be a Republican. Words are cheap until they are backed up with action. and if anybody thinks that this part A is getting ready to have the necessary appropriations to undertake the meager measures on border security. then I have a bridge in Mr. NADLERS general area that I would like to sell them. Our immigration laws are in dire need of revision. Everybody In this House knows. Mr. Speaker. that our immigration laws are broken. The current system is rife with double standards. quota limit. wet footdry foot. air footboat foot. student visas. just to name a few. The bill before us today does absolutely nothing to address these shortcomings in the law. Instead. it is a harsh set of laws that favor heavyhanded enforcement in the guise of protection. Mr. Speaker. my south Floridabased district staff. as I am speaking. work every single day. and today as I speak there are immigrants lined up throughout the halls of the office that I am privileged to serve. lined sometimes as many as 30 or 40 people deep snake through the hallways of that office. Some came here legally. Others arrived illegally.
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