the guest worker programs that were set up in the Senate bill were meager.
This ought to be a no-brainer.
we would have had to... obtain effective control of the border, 90 percent.
I think there is a lot of agreement that we are not going to deport 11-12 million people. We are not.
President Obama did poison the well.
the top priority of this Committee is border security and looking at our immigration law
I do not believe the Senate bill did that.
But they would have been put on a sort of probationary status that would have allowed them to work.
I think you can tell by the emphasis we are putting on border security and our immigration system, that this is a top pr...
this really, from my standpoint, is the top priority of this Committee
What I would really like to explore is...are those executive actions going to help the problem or is it going to exacerb...
That is not good for them. That is not good for this country.
We would not be discussing DHS funding today had President Obama not taken the unilateral executive action.
I think that is part of the purpose of this hearing, should there be greater enforcement?
We have to make that a legal process. We have to control that.
If we want to have an honest debate, I think that is the way to do it, on the floor of the Senate.
We have almost enticed people to come into this country illegally.
we are just going to make the problem worse
