Mr. Speaker. Because. as I watch this situation. and we knew that when we were attacked by enemies from within. most of whom had violated our immigration laws in one form or another. faulty paperwork or let their visas expire. entered into the United States by a method that may or may not have been legal. but certainly the majority of them were not legal at the time that they attacked the United States. the 19 hijackers from September 11. tell us that if they want to come here to do us ill. then we needed to secure our borders. So we got busy and spent a lot of money and set up a lot of new standards. and we have things now that are halfway in place. like US VISIT. where we have a computer database now that tracks everybody that comes into America. that is not quite yet tracking everybody that goes out of America. so we dont have a balance sheet list of who is here. We just have a list of who came.
Identified stereotypes
Associating undocumented immigrants with terrorism (9/11 hijackers)