Speech #1090120275

We talk a good game about this issue. We talk about enforcement in the context of this debate. But the simple fact is that we have never proven ourselves on the issues of enforcement and border security. Talk is cheap. When we talk about authorization language. we all know authorization language is one thing. but appropriating the money to have true border security and true enforcement is quite a different and more challenging step. So lets not just talk. Lets act and lets prove ourselves. Lets do that before we run headlong into other provisions that are being debated. such as provisions that would be tantamount to amnesty. I will offer two amendmentsone a broad global amendment and one a much more focused amendmentthat are both consistent with this general philosophy that talk is cheap and that we need to act and prove ourselves with regard to border security and enforcement before we run headlong into these other issues. My first amendment is No. 3264. It does several essential things with regard to the Specter substitute No. 3192 currently before the Senate.