Speech #1100067659

How about this gentleman. Mr. Kris Kobach. a former Department of Justice attorney under Attorney General Ashcroft. who specialized in the Department of Justice in terrorism and immigration issues and who has spoken out often and is a college professor now. He agrees with Mr. Cutler. He posted an article on the Heritage Foundation Web site titled "The Senate Immigration Bill: A National Security Nightmare." He says: The bill will make it easier for alien terrorists who operate in the United States by allowing them to create fraudulent identities with ease. Supporters of the Senates comprehensive immigration reform bill have revived it under the guise of national security. However. the new public relations campaign is a farce. The bill offers alien terrorists new pathways to obtain legal status. which will make it easier for them to carry out deadly attacks against American citizens. The top priority in this bill is extending amnesty as quickly and as easily as possible to as many illegal aliens as possible. The cost of doing so is to jeopardize national security. That is Mr. Kris Kobach who has testified before Congress a number of times. former Assistant Attorney General specializing in immigration and national security issues. So I urge my colleagues to look at this bill because we dont need to pass a piece of legislation that we cant defend to our constituents. that we cannot tell our constituents with confidence it will make them safer. It will reduce illegality dramatically at the border 13 percent. 80. 90. 95 percent is the goal we should have to reduce illegality. and that should be the beginning point. We can get there. We dont need to pass a piece of legislation that is going to double the legal flow. not reduce the illegal flow. and end up having the wages of Americans further diminished by this incredibly large flow of lowskilled. lowwage workers. We dont need to further erode the morale of our Border Patrol officers and erode American confidence in the rule of law. Those are my thoughts. I hope we will give this serious consideration as we make our judgment tomorrow about whether we should proceed.