Tom Tancredo: “I rise once again this evening to propose an amendment similar in some respects to one I have proposed in the past and…”

“I rise once again this evening to propose an amendment similar in some respects to one I have proposed in the past and different in others, that is to say, it is similar in that it does this: It says we have a law on the books, it was passed in 1996, and the law says that all States and localities therein are prevented from impeding the flow of information to the Immigration and Naturalization Service. The successor agency is, of course, BICE. They are also prevented by the law from actually stopping any information from coming from the old INS and now BICE. That is what the law says. It is there, on the books, and every single time I offer this amendment the other side gets up and starts arguing the law as to whether or not we should have the law, why it should be in place, would we not be better off without a law? But that is not the purpose of my amendment, of course, to repeal the law. It is to enforce the law. That is all I ask. We are a body that makes laws. We should, of course, also encourage the enforcement of those laws or we should repeal them.”