Speech #1100022211

Chairman. your work on this and look forward to working with you. Mr. Speaker. we are talking about border control. but I want to make sure that the American people and everybody recognizes. in your district. the real problem exists that those who hire illegals are the ones who are creating the number one source of illegal immigration. When we talk about the violence at the border. when we talk about people dying. drowning at the border trying to come into this country illegally. the people that are at fault for that are those employers who provide the incentive for people to break our immigration laws and those who are profiteering off illegal immigration. and that is the illegal employers. I would ask you and I would ask every Member of Congress and I would ask everyone who is listening across the United States to take a look at H.R. 98 which is a bill that Silvestre Reyes. a very respected Democrat from El Paso. who is a former Border Patrol agent. and David Dreier. a Republican. former chairman of the Rules Committee. put together working with the men and women who actually have to control our frontier and control immigration. the immigration agents themselves. They put together a bill called H.R. 98. and it is so simple that there is no excuse for anybody not to support it. unless they think that there is an advantage to encourage illegal immigration. In this bill. it says one thing. It says. lets get rid of the 37 different documents that anybody can prove they are legal to be in the country to work.