On the recordDecember 15, 2005
my colleagues, I welcome the newest Member of the House from California; and I, likewise, welcome this commonsense amendment because in this amendment the gentleman from California encapsulates the challenge facing this House. We claim we are going to enforce existing laws. Let us begin here. Thirty-two cities and counties have not been cooperating. They say let us carve out an exception. Two states in our Union are sanctuaries, Oregon and Maine. Ladies and gentlemen, if border security is national security, if we have found that we have illegally in this Nation over 80,000 convicted felons from other cultures, why should it be difficult for local law enforcement agencies to themselves obey the law? ``Yes'' on this amendment. It puts some teeth in the bill.
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