NAN A. S. HAYWORTH: “I appreciate the difference of opinion in the people's House. I listened with great interest to my friend from Texas.…”

“I appreciate the difference of opinion in the people's House. I listened with great interest to my friend from Texas. Indeed, when this question was before the House on prior occasions, at least a couple of times in my time in this Congress, I sided with my friend from Texas. And yet, we have been overtaken by current events and a literal admonition from the Constitution of the United States, article IV, section 4: ``The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion.'' Mr. Chairman, my colleagues, regrettably, in my home State of Arizona, especially along the width and breadth of our southern border, our Nation is being invaded. And not only is it those coming to our country illegally seeking work, the sad fact is, according to the Department of Homeland Security, in the year 2004, 650 people from nations of a ``national security interest'' to the United States, in other words, enemies of this Nation, at least 650, crossed the border illegally. It has been documented in my State that nightly between 6,000 and 6,500 attempt to gain illegal access to the United States of America. Some within that group are people who intend our Nation harm. People say we are in a nonemergency situation. Mr. Chairman, my colleagues, I say quite the opposite is true.…”