Brian Bilbray: “as somebody who lives on the border with Mexico and grew up with the immigration issue, I am very concerned to hear my…”

“as somebody who lives on the border with Mexico and grew up with the immigration issue, I am very concerned to hear my colleagues on the other side of the aisle say, ``Let's not do it now. Let's put it off and try to do something else in the next Congress.'' I as a mayor and as a county supervisor, I worked with the problems in our community with illegal immigration, crime, the impacts on our health care system. In fact, if my colleagues go to our hospitals today, they will see there are major adverse impacts. Talk to our law enforcement people about the major impact of illegal immigration. The cost is not just in dollars and cents. And I would ask my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, if you don't care about the cost to the working class people, because this illegal immigration does not affect the rich white people, illegal immigration hurts those who need our services and our jobs in this country more than anything else, those who are legally here. But if you don't care about that, let me ask you to care about the humanity that is being slaughtered every day along our border because Washington, not Mexico, not Latin America, not anywhere else in the country, but Washington and the leadership in Washington has pulled a cruel hoax that says, ``Come to our country illegally, and we will reward you.…”