Xavier Becerra: “Unfortunately, I must disagree with the way he has done this. As the gentleman from California (Mr. Bilbray) said, this…”

“Unfortunately, I must disagree with the way he has done this. As the gentleman from California (Mr. Bilbray) said, this is only a sense of Congress. This bill will not have any practical legal affect on our laws and how we conduct our affairs, at least not immediately. It is, in essence, a message bill. Unfortunately, the message it sends is not that this is just a sense of Congress that there is a problem between our two countries of Mexico and the U.S. along our borders, but it sends a different message. The message that will be received, not here, but in Mexico will be one of threats. While the gentleman from California (Mr. Bilbray) raises a very important point that we must take care of our environmental matters between two sovereign nations, in this case, our country and the country of Mexico, I do not believe that anyone south of the border reading this sense of Congress would believe that this is a cooperative, collaborative approach to resolving the problems that are disturbing the folks in San Diego.”