John Hope Bryant

While I fully support all the provisions in this legislation, I want to speak for just a moment on the section which would prevent the State of Kentucky from unfairly taxing the workers who live in Tennessee but who work on the Kentucky…

I guess we have moved from the spirit of Hershey and our bipartisan retreat and we are now talking about the radical right and calling names. I would remind the gentlewoman from California that this radical right that opposed this…

I would observe that the same taxpayers that the gentleman from Georgia, Mr. Deal, was speaking of would have to pay the cost of the law enforcement which would result from having all these kids on the street, the cost of the schools…

Members of the House, I was a cosponsor of this legislation. I stood in a press conference alongside the gentleman from Texas [Mr. Smith] and said we have got to do something to reduce legal immigration and to reduce illegal immigration…

I once again take issue with this characterization of the bill. This is not the bill that the House voted on; it is not the bill the Senate voted on. It is a bill that the Republicans spent 4 months behind closed doors cooking up so it…

How does the gentleman distinguish, now? We are talking about a Federal issue here. Ought it not be the same in all States also, that we require they be in school?

if they are coming to get a job and they have kids, the kids are coming. Do we want, as a matter of national policy, to have these kids wandering the streets? We might hear it said in a moment, well, the new version of this does not…

I think it would have been best, frankly, had my good friend, the gentleman from California [Mr. Gallegly], who I believe to be quite sincere about this, had simply brought to the floor the original amendment which says flatly that we are…

Integrate. The Federal Government now requires the school systems to be integrated, to permit all students to come to schools. Do you think that we should continue that policy?

I urge Members to do what is right for our kids, do what is right for our neighborhoods, do what is right for our police departments. Do not put another burden on the school districts, and vote against this bill.

I think it is all our responsibilities to take the next step and say what would be the actual result of doing what the gentleman is advocating. Nobody wants illegal immigrants to be in this country, but the simple fact is not one single…

Well, I asked a question of the gentleman: Does he think the States should have the power to decide whether or not the schools are going to be integrated? ... So the answer is, yes, I do think that States should have the right to determine…

we began considering immigration legislation after the Jordan Commission gave us a report outlining the problems and proposing to us a set of bipartisan solutions. In no part of the Jordan Commission report, or in any other study, for that…

I think it is extremely unfair and extremely inaccurate for the advocates of this amendment to describe the bill as antifamily. It is not antifamily. What it does is recognize what the Jordan Commission observed, and that is that we have…

Mr. Chairman, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the high level of immigration is responsible for 50 percent of the decline in real wages for America's lowest skilled workers, that is, those who did not complete high school. Yet…

Mr. Chairman, this should be an easy decision for all of us. This is an amendment that proposes to allow 250,000 foreign workers to come into the country to do work that could be done by American workers. We have already been through this…

I would simply conclude by saying that this motion to recommit would put into the immigration bill a provision that ensures that U.S. workers cannot be laid off and replaced with foreign temporary workers. Every Member of this House ought…

Mr. Chairman, what is really at stake in the consideration of the Chrysler-Berman amendment is whether we are going to do anything meaningful with regard to numbers in this whole debate. The fact of the matter is that legal immigration…

I just want to say that in the subcommittee we had hearings on parts of this bill. We had no hearings on this. No evidence was brought forth to tell us if there was a need to import nurses to take the jobs of American nurses that are…

the motion to recommit incorporates an amendment which the Committee on Rules would not allow us to offer in the course of the debate on the immigration bill which would change the current law in a way that is beneficial and positive for…

I would just point out of these people, these figures you are using of these people, they are not going to be in this category that your amendment applies to anyway, No. 1. No. 2, the fact is, we have got no evidence indicating that there…

as stated earlier when we debated the Bryant of Tennessee amendment, there have been two areas which we have always excepted from our hardline approach to trying to deal with the question of illegal immigrants. Those have been emergency…

I have, I think, as consistent and as tough a record in trying to deal with the problem of illegal immigration as any Member of this House of either party. But there have been two exceptions that we have always made with regard to this…

I want to also respond briefly to a comment made early by the gentlewoman from Idaho. I think she misheard me. I said that the pilot program now working to test this system that the Chabot amendment would eliminate has not yielded any…

I want to pose a question to the gentleman from Florida. Is there some report or some evidence or some indication that we have a problem with immigrants in these categories coming over here and refusing to learn to speak English? Because…