Speech #1100057015

My colleagues have said. the Senator from Arizona and the Senator from Massachusetts have said. you know. we need to have a temporary worker provision because if we dont have a temporary worker provision to bring in people who are not now here to assume jobs in this country. they are going to come anyway. They are coming across anyway. They will come in as illegal immigrants. Well. I said: I dont understand that. You say that this bill would strengthen our border. provide border security. and stop illegal immigration. Now you are saying that in order to stop illegal immigration you have to have a guest worker provision because. if we do not have a guest worker provision. they are going to come anyway. Maybe you are misrepresenting this issue of border security. are you not? So the Congressional Budget Office comes out with a report. Guess what they said. This bill. the grand compromise. means those who come across the border illegally. 75 percent will keep coming under this bill. 75 percent will keep coming under this bill. Yet the proponents of the bill are out here with big banners and trumpeting that this is a big border security bill. It is not. It is not that.