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I support comprehensive immigration reform as the best course of action for Congress and America.

Provide a sensible means to deal with the immigrants who are currently in the country without legal status but are of good character, pay taxes, and are committed to continuing to contribute to our society.

Improves our immigration system, keeps our communities safe, and protects our borders.

If we try to plug the U.S. border with Mexico without increasing security in America's Caribbean border, we're just going to displace the criminal activity from one U.S. border to another.

I must express my concern that Puerto Rico is currently excluded in the definition of 'southern border' in S. 744.

I want to begin by expressing my strong support for the passage of comprehensive immigration reform legislation during this session of Congress.

Comprehensive reform will significantly improve public safety.

The committee has recognized that this state of affairs is dangerous, since the parcel includes beaches, walkways, and campgrounds.

However, the Army argues that a 1974 law prohibits the Federal cleanup of a 400-acre parcel that was part of the bombardment zone.

There is no question that water is a very serious topic for all Oregonians.

Our concern initially was that if that land was going to come from the O&C land base, that there be something in the way of equal acres value or volume to replace it.

This policy requires a link to al-Qaeda. Is that right?

As a cosponsor, I hope that this Committee will now follow suit, so that the biodiversity and natural ecosystems in South Florida; my district, Puerto Rico; and the other areas of the United States that are vulnerable to invasion by…

Finally, I am most concerned about the two amendments that the Judiciary Committee added to H.R. 511.

I understand that the snakes that are the subject of H.R. 511 could survive and create breeding populations in the wild.

In my home, in the Northern Mariana Islands, the Brown Tree Snake is considered the number one threat to native wildlife.

Let me tell you, what you have seen, you have seen Secretary Napolitano standing firm on the deferred action policy that the Federal Government is about to implement.

So the last comment I make is it is allocating resources.