Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Texas for yielding. I rise in opposition to this bill, to this bill that has a nice name. But it is really not a dream; it is a nightmare. It is a nightmare to the rule of law. As the gentlewoman from California said, we do write the laws in this country, and we have written the laws that limit people from coming into the United States illegally. And it seems to be forgotten that under even this legislation that is proposed, someone who is one day short of their 16th birthday could sneak across the border in the United States, claim they were here for 5 years, they could go on a Web site, how about www.diplomacompany.com, get themselves a GED, and qualify for the DREAM Act if they were just accepted into a tech school, to, say, go to barber school or plumber school. That is kind of the minimum. And it isn't they are doing this on their 16th birthday. They can do so the day before their 30th birthday. They can lie about their age. The comments about there being biometric information and a background check, we can't do background checks on people that don't have a legal existence in their own country. About half of the people that are born south of the border don't have a birth certificate, unless they were born in a hospital. It is about 50-50, which means no legal existence. There is not a way to do a background check. The score on this, the cost, is a lot higher than the proponents would like to admit.…”