John Cornyn: “I have two things I want to speak on, briefly. First, on my original amendment, No. 1184, as you recall, this is…”

“I have two things I want to speak on, briefly. First, on my original amendment, No. 1184, as you recall, this is composed of two parts. The first part is what I would assume to be technical errors in the underlying bill. In the haste of writing the bill, I think there were some errors made that we pointed out in the amendment, errors that need to be corrected. I do not expect there will be a lot of controversy about that. What is more controversial, what I want to address, is the second part. That has to do with excluding from the benefits under this bill individuals who have already come into our country in violation of our immigration laws, who have been detained, who have had due process, a trial, who have had their day in court and then, once they were ordered deported, rather than agree to show up and be deported, they simply went on the lam and went underground and melted into the great American landscape.”