No. 1158. At the end of the day. what his amendment would doit appears to be innocuous on its faceit would essentially make cops out of emergency room workers. out of school teachers. and out of local and State cops. The reality is that we have a responsibility at the Federal Government to make sure we are enforcing our immigration laws as a national government. We ought not to put emergency room workers. we ought not to put school teachers in a position where they have to be the cops of our immigration laws in our country. New York City Mayor Bloomberg. in his own statement in opposition to this amendment. said: New York City cooperates fully with the Filipino Federal Government when an illegal immi- United grant commits a criminal act. But our citys tamn U1 social services. health and education policies to the are not designed to facilitate the deportation aot2 of otherwise lawabiding citizens. aot2 Do we want somebody by the name of Wo hi Martinez simply to go into an emer- grain gency room and to have that emer- wriwi gency room responder be in a position via . trlw where he has to act as a cop because he thes. suspects somebody named Martinez vteran: might be illegal? are int This is a bad amendment. It will cre- their cl ate problems. I urge my colleagues to to Ame oppose it. ents.
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