Dana Rohrabacher: “I congratulate my fellow Californian, Congressman Elton Gallegly. He has fought a long and hard battle to get this issue…”

“I congratulate my fellow Californian, Congressman Elton Gallegly. He has fought a long and hard battle to get this issue to the floor and to have our Government come to grips with a major threat to the well-being of the people of the United States of America. This Congressman, when I first came here in 1989, took me aside and we spoke about the illegal immigration problem, and that was back in 1989. We have worked together diligently ever since, and he has provided enormous leadership on this issue. We were never able to get this to the floor for a vote. Why is that? Because when the liberal Democrats controlled the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, they were not about to let any honest debate on this issue take place. Perhaps it is because there is an alliance, a political alliance somewhere that someone wants to maintain that is costing the American people the right to run their own country and the right to educate their children and the right to actually control our own borders. The fact is that, until the Republicans took control of the House, the liberal Democrats put us down every time we tried to discuss this issue. We could never get a vote. Thank God that at last this problem is being confronted. Since Mr. Gallegly and I talked in 1989, millions upon millions of illegal immigrants have flooded into our home State of California and across the country as well.”