Overseas terrorists having access to the courts. having warrants. and those types of things were moved. Then today. at the last minute. or yesterday at the last minute. we get an amendment. a managers amendment. that provides or. it appears. rips away any type of protection for another threat. Is the majority saying that the threat to the homeland is greater for aliens. illegal aliens living in the United States. than state sponsors of terrorism? It appears that it does because they have 40 or 50 pages of protections and a paragraph of exceptions that says: "No rights under the RESTORE Act for undocumented aliens." Many on our side may think that that is a good idea. What this managers amendment says very simply is if there are no rights under the RESTORE Act for undocumented aliens. maybe we should put that same provision in here for state sponsors of terrorism and agents of sponsors of terrorism. Its very clear. We think that if a threat to the homeland. as identified by the other side. are illegal aliens. perhaps its also time that we recognize that state sponsors of terrorism pose the same type of threat to the United States. Is the majority saying that illegal aliens are a greater threat to the United States than Cuba. than Iran. North Korea. Sudan and Syria? It appears from the bill that we have before us tonight that is exactly what they are saying. because they have 50 pages of protections and one page of exceptions. Lets make sure that we treat illegal aliens the same way we treat North Korea and Cuba.
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