POLIS. Mr. Speaker, the time for immigration reform is now. If we want to increase the growth rate of our economy, fixing our
broken immigration system will do that. If we want to restore the rule of law and improve our national
security so we know who is here, immigration reform will do that. If we want to prevent undocumented workers from undermining wages for
American workers, immigration reform will do that by making sure that
people who work here are registered and get right with the law and can
move forward in a legal manner. There are so many reasons to pass a bipartisan immigration reform
bill similar to the one that passed the United States Senate with more
than two-thirds support just a few years ago. I hope that my Democratic and Republican colleagues hear the outcry
from across this country that says enough is enough. Let's fix our
broken immigration system. We are, after all, a nation of immigrants and a nation of laws. It is
the work of this body to reconcile those two to make sure that, moving
forward, we can do immigration in a legal way rather than an illegal
way, a way that benefits our economy, American workers, and American
businesses. Let's move forward on comprehensive immigration reform now.
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