Speech #1140082609

This is your: I want to deport 4 to 5 million people. I wish the majority would stop talking about the Constitution and really talk about what it is they mean to achieve here. If you want to see people deported. why dont you all stand up and say it? Be men and women of integrity and of your word and say: I want 4 to 5 million unprotected. and amend this to say. "this is a mass deportation for 4 to 5 million people." You keep saying that the candidates out there on the Presidential trail do not represent your values. do not represent who you are politically. and then you come back here and stoke the fire even more. What you are demonstrating here is that you should be doing immigration reform. What you are demonstrating here is your impotence at being able to get it done. Why dont you just say that this is what it is all about? Because out on the campaign trail. on immigration. we get lots of demagoguery from the majority. The debate has sunk to a level where people are actually throwing punches. and worse. Two refugees from Southeast Asia and a gentleman from Puerto Rico were shot and murdered in front of their children in Milwaukee because they didnt have the right accent in their voice. Two students. a Muslim and a Latino. were attacked by a man when they encountered him beating a Black man in Kansas this week. and he turned to them and shouted racist threats and said they should just go and leave the country. We have Go Back to Africa and Hitler salutes. and all of this is becoming more and more what we expect. the reality we see in 2016. And now the Republicans in the House are stoking the same antiimmigrant fears and mass deportation fantasies some more. No. they are not leading. They are not calling for calmer rhetoric. let alone more rational policies. They are playing politics with immigrants. plain and simple. Shame on them. If Republicans are so secure in the validity of their arguments. they should write a brief and submit it. just like the 259 Democrats did last week. without politicizing and using this august body to bring about your partisan political hatred against immigrants. The vote is a political stunt disguised as a legal brief. This is not a legal brief. This is a political stunt. The Republican majority sees a crass political opportunity to stand with the antiimmigrant wing of their party. I guess the Speaker thinks. hey. why play it straight when you can force a purely political vote on immigration. designed to deepen the partisan line and validate the very angry people who go around showing their hatred. their bigotry. and their prejudice in the political process in America.