Speech #1100054473

Mr. President. a number of things continue to be revealed as we analyze this monumental piece of legislation which purports to comprehensively reform immigration law in America and. indeed. any comprehensive reform bill would be extensive because it is an incredibly complex sub~ject with many moving parts. many legal niceties and complexities. all of which. if we are going to have a system that works. need to come into place. It has been stated repeatedly by those who have proposed and promoted the legislation which is before us today that this legislation will secure the border and we will have a lawful system of immigration in the future. Those claims have been made repeatedly. The proponents have said they are going to have additional Border Patrol agents. and so forth. Indeed. the PowerPoint that the White House used to make their presentations early on promised to "secure U.S. borders" and "not to repeat the 1986 failure." Others are saying the same thing. One of the Senators who is involved in the process said. "I am delighted we are going to secure the border." Another Senator said. "This legislation will finally accomplish the extraordinary goal of securing our borders." Another said. "The agreement we just reached is the best possible chance we have to secure our borders. In this legislation we are doubling the border patrol: we are increasing detention space." Another Senator said. "This will restore the rule of law. Without the legislation. we will have anarchy." Another one said. "We started out with 18.000 additional border patrol officers. We will increase the detention capacity." And so on and so forth. Even our former Governor Jeb Bush and Ken Mehlman wrote an oped in the Wall Street Journal and said. "ft will make sure our borders become secure." "We have had broke borders in this country for 20 years." That is the truth. "It is time we get them fixed." That is the truth.