Speech #1090173485

I would like to remind the body of what we have here. We have a bill with three sections. the first of which. in the chairmans own words. reinforms the authority of the local governments to do something that he apparently believes and we all accept that they would have the authority to do anyway. I call that one the lets use the Iraq model for dealing with the issue of illegal immigration. subcontract large functions of it. but unlike in Iraq where we overpay the subcontractors. here tell the local law enforcement people we are giving up at the Federal level trying to deal with this problem. we are not going to give you a penny for more jail cells or a penny for more resources. we are not going to give you a single dime to do anything about it. but we are here to tell you if you want to. you have the authority to arrest and detain people who are in this country illegally without regard to whatever acts they may have committed. The second section of the bill is alien smuggling. It has a bunch of findings. it has a sense of Congress. and then says we authorize. but no funding. 20 more people to do something about alien smuggling.