Speech #1100051891

I was told by the people who constructed this proposal that if you shut down the temporary worker provision by which we will bring people into this country who are not now here to take American jobs--if you shut down the temporary worker provisions. what will happen. they said. is people will come across illegally anyway. I said: I dont understand your point. First. you said you have written a bill that provides border security and stops illegal immigration. Now you are saying if we get rid of the temporary worker provision. what will happen is we will have illegal immigration anyway. You cant have it both ways. Either this bill does what is advertised and provides real border security or it doesnt. Those who put the bill together told us yesterday it doesnt have that border security because they believe they have to designate those who are coming across as legal. therefore. temporary workers. because if they did not do that. they would come across and we would call them illegal. That is the most unbelievable thing I ever heard. They cobbled together this proposal. I said yesterday it reminds me of the old saying that a camel is a horse produced by a committee. They have cobbled together this camel of policy here with several different pieces. saying. first. because I believe they understand the polities of it that requires them to say this. we have provided for border security when. in fact. they have not. That is not the case. All they have done is created the same promises I heard 21 years ago. Then they say. but we must. even as we decide to say to this 12 million who are here. including those who came across the last week of December last year: By the way. you are now legal and given a work permitwe must. in addition to that. allow millions more to come in. Yes. you get millions more when you do 400.000 a year for 2 years. have them go back for a year. come back 2 more years. have them go back a year. and have 2 more years and accumulate that. and you have at the very least. without even counting families. 12 million workers in a few years. They say we have to do thatinvite others to come in to take American jobs--because if we dont. they will come across the border anyway.