Jeff Flake: “I rise today to conclude a series of commentaries I have been making on illegal immigration and to find a solution to…”

“I rise today to conclude a series of commentaries I have been making on illegal immigration and to find a solution to the Nation's current immigration woes. We in Arizona feel this in particular. Over the past 8 months, I have been working with the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Kolbe) to put together a comprehensive foreign worker program, a temporary worker program, which recognizes the way people organize and order their own lives, that recognizes that we need a rational policy to deal with the situation that we have along our Nation's borders. We need to understand that we not only need to deal with those who want to come to our country to work on a temporary basis, but for those who are here illegally as well, and find a solution that will both encourage those who are here illegally to come out from under the woodwork, and to come into a legal framework and to provide an opportunity for those who wish to come and fill our Nation's labor needs to do so. I am pleased that this will be introduced today, and I encourage my colleagues to look at it and join us in the debate and ultimately support it.”