Steve Pearce: “I thank both gentlemen from Georgia for their work, either plus or against this amendment. I offer to support the…”

“I thank both gentlemen from Georgia for their work, either plus or against this amendment. I offer to support the amendment tonight, have helped cosponsor it. I appreciate the work that the gentleman from Georgia has done. Mr. Chairman, our amendment simply requires secure forms of identification. It can be any form. It can be a foreign passport, a U.S. passport. It can be a Citizenship and Immigration Services photo ID card, a Social Security card with some State or Federal ID. These secure forms of identification are relatively easy for legal residents and citizens to accomplish and to acquire. They are relatively difficult for illegals to acquire. So I think that the gentleman's amendment is very appropriate. We are finding that more and more services that should go to legal American citizens are being soaked up by those who come here illegally. In the Second District of New Mexico, we are on the southern border of the United States bordering Mexico, and I will tell you that our hospitals are overwhelmed. Good tax-paying citizens come to me and ask why is it that one's daughter whose husband and she make $30,000 or $40,000 a year just paid $5,000 to have a baby and the girl in the bed next to her got it for free? We are finding that this is the case over and over.”