Political Quotes

“the issue of illegal immigration is an extremely serious one for America. Few places are as affected by that issue as my State of Florida. My State represents approximately 6 percent of the population in the United States. It is estimated that 10 percent to 15 percent of the illegal aliens who are in the United States are in the State of Florida. Within the last 4 years there were periods in which over 4,000 persons from Haiti alone entered into small boats in order to get to the United States, primarily through Florida, and would have added further to that population of illegal aliens. Mr. President, my concern, therefore, is not that this Congress should deal with this subject. It is important, critical that we do. Rather, I believe there are at least two areas of this bill through which a serious fault line runs. This is not Shakespearian theater. This is structural engineering. The first of those fault lines, and the two are related, is that while this bill has as its label, illegal immigration, S. 1664 says in its heading, in its title, 'To Amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to Increase Control Over Immigration to the United States by Increasing Border Patrol,' et cetera.”