Madam Chairman. I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Chairman. the amendment I plan to offer today simply cannot be considered outside a comprehensive immigration reform effort. which. respectfully. this bill is not. Therefore. I would like to use my time to discuss the principle reflected in my amendment. one that thus far has been absent from this debate. Madam Chairman. as we consider ways to meet our legitimate labor needs. the choice before us is not limited to doing nothing or jumping into a guest worker plan we all know will never work and I promise we will one day regret. There is another way. Madam Chairman. we already have an immigration system in place that we can amend and change to reconcile economic demands with other important priorities. such as diversity of admissions. The worker scheme is based on the same defeatist notion that we cannot stop it. so we might as well legalize it. used by proponents of legalizing drugs and prostitution. Legalization has not worked for those vices and it will not work for illegal immigration. Some have the audacity to claim a guest worker plan is not amnesty because it does not. in the Presidents words. place undocumented workers on an automatic path to citizenship. Madam Chairman. what does citizenship have to do with it? Most illegals do not come here with a copy of the Constitution in their back pockets yearning to become Americans.
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Most illegals do not come here with a copy of the Constitution in their back pockets yearning to become Americans.