I would like to thank you both for coming before the committee.

I am happy to work with you and with credit unions.

They should be playing by the same rules.

we will not have another--unless it is unnecessary--the subcommittee will not have another hearing around the credit unions.

we will be looking at is the type of investments that they will be allowed to make.

We ought to allow this. It is the one thing we can do to help the economy now at zero risk to the Federal Government and at zero cost to the Federal Government.

Since the 108th Congress, Representative Kanjorski and I have co-authored the Credit Union Regulatory Improvements Act.

Does not the seizure and subsequent rescue of both U.S. Central and WesCorp, as a result of their exposure to mortgage-back securities show that the NCUA has allowed corporates to hold more high-risk investments than they should?

Let me ask you something, so how is the policemen's credit union doing?

If the risk is there, maybe it should be risk-based.

Did you have any losses last year like the corporate ones?

Thank you for inviting me to appear before the subcommittee today on behalf of the Credit Union National Association to discuss H.R. 2351.

What is new and disturbing and I believe what is causing much of the angst is the extent to which the cartels are now lashing out against the government itself, attacking the government of Mexico and attacking innocent civilians.

When you have people who are on the local police department involved in immigration enforcement, that trust is broken.

I don't believe that we can characterize the entire immigrant community by looking at particular incidents in which immigrants have abused their place here, in which they have committed heinous crimes.

They are wrong today to tarnish a whole immigrant community because of the actions of a few--a few that I wish to get rid of.

When we put our local men and women and our police forces into the position of enforcing immigration law, we are putting them into an untenable situation.

No one here, and I agree with Mr. Tranchant, they should go home. Better than go home, we should drive them home, we should ship them home, we should use any resources to make sure that they are not here.

people die; a lot of people are dying because of our immigration system, exploited at work, children left behind.

We all benefit. And we show a blind eye--a blind eye, Mr. Tranchant, that I share with you, as a father of two daughters.

Am I supposed to check, when I go to church, those who sit in the pews with me in church and check their immigration status?

The big challenge for local police is to balance the interests involved with respect to their responsibilities under the police powers of the State, and their responsibilities to ensure civil liberties established under the Constitution…

This is a Federal job.

I have seen that readily here in the Congress of the United States. And it makes for great political points, but it doesn't resolve the problem.

The cost of participating in the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's 287(g) program outweighs its benefits.