Speech #1090120090

The key point is that we provide the funding and the authorization necessary to get a handle on controlling the border and to deal with the apprehensions that occur as a result of that. The next thing we do is to provide for more internal enforcement. and for all of the different parts of the Department of Homeland Security that have a responsibility for enforcing the law in the interior. Today. an illegal immigrant knows if you get about 60 miles north of the border. you are literally home free in your new home because we dont have the law enforcement officials to do anything about it. That is especially difficult at the employment site. As you know. we have laws against hiring illegal immigrants. but they are not enforced. I think there were something like three actions brought last year against however many million employers we have in this country. The bottom line is we need an enforcement mechanism to ensure that whoever is entitled to be employed here. the employer can verify their eligibility. that it is easy to do. and that it is foolproof.