Speech #1090171357

Mr. Speaker. with approximately 12 days left in this legislative 2year session. we are talking about retreads. an idea that we have already voted on before. an idea that has passed this House but has been rejected by the Senate. That is what we are being left with to tell the people of America what we will do about our broken immigration laws. We are on a path to do nothing once again in this Congress on immigration reform. This is a bill which says we want to build a fence but provides not a single penny to get the job done on a project that will cost several billion dollars. This is a bill that says we should try to protect our borders but does not one single thing to increase the number of Border Patrol agents. Immigration Enforcement officers. or Customs inspectors that we need to make sure that we protect our borders. This is a bill that says it wants to protect America but does not a single thing about the cargo containers that are coming into this country through all our seaports every day. some 12 million or so cargo containers per year. We are not doing anything to increase our inspection of them when only one of every 16 of those cargo containers that enter into our country is inspected as we speak. Mr. Speaker. we are on a path to do nothing. We are in essence moonwalking on the issue of immigration reform once again. Without the Senates supporting us in the last 12 days of this legislative 2year session. what can we accomplish? Not a great deal.