Speech #1090139498

What the Deal amendment does is it does away with birthright citizenship in the United States of America. It is a bill that has a lot of cosponsors. I believe it is a bipartisan bill. and we want to attach it to the homeland security bill as we see a runaway. broken down immigration policy part of our national security picture. Indeed. many of the immigrants who are coming over from Mexico. legal and illegal. are. in fact. nonMexican citizens. and in many cases. they are caught and released into the country with hopes that they may or may not come back. I guess they may come back. but many times. they do not. That is why I am standing in support of the Deal amendment. I also have an amendment that I have offered. and what my amendment does is it is a payment limitation amendment because our own Border Patrol apparently is tipping off the Mexican government as to where Minutemen are on the MexicoUnited States border. Currently. we have 7.000 volunteers in the Minutemen organization. I say volunteers. These are unpaid people who are so outraged with the runaway illegal immigration problem that they have set up posts along the southwest border to help the Border Patrol and the local law enforcement agencies to tell them where the people are coming in and who is coming in. I invite all Members of Congress to go to the southwest border sometime this summer and take a look at how outrageous and how out of control this problem is. But despite the good work of the Minutemen organization. we find that our own Border Patrol now has a policy of tipping off the Mexican government so that they can inform these illegal aliens. these lawbreakers. as to where the lawful American citizens are located. What our amendment does is says that none of our money appropriated in this bill can be spent to tip off people who are breaking the law as to where lawabiding citizens are who are trying to help border security. do not tip them off. The Minutemen is one of these kind of politically incorrect organizations which the eastern Washingtonian. big government establishment likes to poohpooh. put down as being a bunch of country rednecks who are reactionaries who really just want to shoot people coming over the border. That is absolutely not the case. They are 7.000 volunteers who are good. hardworking American taxpaying citizens. who are really trying to help out and help preserve the security of the country they love. and for our own Border Patrol to be undermining them. when the Border Patrol is not doing sufficient work to begin with. is counterproductive. So I hope that our amendment is in order and that we do get an overwhelming bipartisan support on it.