Johnny Isakson: “yesterday I took the floor to speak at length about the legislation before us and to talk particularly about the history…”

“yesterday I took the floor to speak at length about the legislation before us and to talk particularly about the history of amnesty in the past dealing with immigration. I talked about the dangerous step we would take if we created another opportunity to attract even more to come here without first having secured our borders. The amendment I have asked to be placed before the Senate today accepts a very simple premise, and that is that we have failed as a country to secure our borders. We continue to have those coming here illegally to work because it is easier than coming here legally. And until we stop that and shut that down, any program granting status to an illegal person in this country should never be implemented. In the insurance industry, swimming pools are entitled an attractive nuisance. In the business of immigration, American policy is an attractive nuisance. We are attracting people to come here the wrong way. We are not penalizing them for coming here the wrong way. And we are now allowing people to come here the right way, a seamless system that seems to work. So this amendment is merely a trigger.…”