Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman for her
leadership. Mr. Speaker, this bill is as much a criminal injustice bill as it is
immigration. Serving as the ranking member on the Crime, Terrorism,
Homeland Security, and Investigations Subcommittee, I am both a
believer in the dangers of MS-13 as many of my colleagues are. I offer
concern and recognition of their violence. That is why this bill should be defeated because something as crucial
as this does not need to be litigated in the courts. You make a bill
with such insufferable frailties constitutionally without
bipartisanship, without any hearings, and without the ability to set a
legal standard of what is the definition or the understanding of a
criminal gang. This is done in consultation with the Attorney General, who is an
opponent of any form of immigration, legal or undocumented, consulting
with the Homeland Security Secretary of which I am a member of that
committee, and the dominant factor will be the Attorney General talking
to the Homeland Security Secretary about criminal elements. Who do you
think will prevail? How many will be swept up in this expansive,
nonorganized, nonorderly, and non-due process legislation?
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