Speech #1130113838

But not only was the bill drafted by Republicans only. in a basement room. there are absolutely no Democrat fingerprints or ideas or amendments or thoughts or suggestions or hopes or anything else in this bill. There have been no hearings. no markups. no amendments. nothing of which we are entitled to as Members of the House and sent here by 750.000 Americans. This bill. we know. does give $35 million to reimburse the National Guard for activities related to "border security and the current influx of illegal immigrants." Now it turns out that only Texas has spent any money on that. and one wonders if that piqued Senator CRUZs interest in this bill and what we are doing over here because it looks like that is where the money will be going. The bill tragically cuts all funding for the DREAM Act. the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. We were told there were something like 700.000 children who were involved in that. who came forward on a promise by this government that they would have an opportunity to go to school and they would not be deported. Now the country has their names. their addresses. and they would be easy to deport because this bill puts an end to the DREAM Act. I related today in the Rules Committee a story about four undocumented young men in high school in the United States that decided to enter into a contest to build an underwater robot. the trouble that they had simply getting the equipment to do it and the teachers who helped them do it. And they really felt that they had been outmatched and outgunned when they were going to compete as high school students against engineering students at MIT. a premier engineering school in the United States. What happened. those four young men won. They beat MIT. Now. they were part of the DREAM Act. We hope they will not be deported because. more than anything I can think of. the United States needs that kind of thinkers and innovators in what they had to do. So the Cato Institute agrees. They wrote on July 29. 3 days ago. that DACA. the DREAM Act. was not a primary cause of the surge. and I insert this report from CATO. entitled. "DACA Did Not Cause the Surge in Unaccompanied Children." into the RECORD. I will also submit some statistical findings from Professor Tim Wong. from the University of California. San Diego. into the RECORD. entitled. "DACA Did Not Cause the Influx of Unaccompanied Minors" into the RECORD. [From the CATO Institute. July 29. 2014]