Dana Rohrabacher: “Mr. Speaker, Mexico is our neighbor and I rise in strong support of this amendment by the gentleman from California (Mr.…”

“Mr. Speaker, Mexico is our neighbor and I rise in strong support of this amendment by the gentleman from California (Mr. Bilbray) concerning our neighbor and our neighbors in Mexico. Like all neighbors, there are issues that deal with neighborhood effect, whether it is just an American neighborhood or whether it is a neighborhood with people who actually are a part of another Nation. Air and water pollution happens to be within that context of a neighborhood effect, and we must be neighborly, and we have tried to be neighborly with our Mexican neighbors. But we also have to watch out for the interests of our own people. Mr. Speaker, what is unfortunate is that in recent years it seems that we have been treating our own people worse than what we treat people of another country, in this case Mexico. I might add that this is not totally inconsistent with what our government seems to be doing in many areas of the world, which is treating our own people with more restrictions and with a harder hand than we treat people of other countries. It is only good and proper that the people of Mexico who travel to the United States almost on a daily basis have the same standards, pollution standards, that they have to deal with with their automobiles as we do.”