Kay Bailey Hutchison: “I wish to take 10 minutes and then be notified when I have taken 10 minutes so I can reserve the remainder of my time.…”

“I wish to take 10 minutes and then be notified when I have taken 10 minutes so I can reserve the remainder of my time. Mr. President, there is something missing from the debate that we have had so far. I do think that this debate has been productive. I think it has been civil. I think our differing views have been aired. And I think there has been a fair consideration of the bill on the floor of the Senate. But no one is talking about the underlying cause of the problem of illegal immigration in our country. What can we do about the root cause of the problem? Most of the people who are coming here--not counting the criminals-- the people who come here to do criminal acts, such as drug dealers and human traffickers, people who come into our country surreptitiously to become a part of a movement that would harm our citizens, those people are in a different category. They are criminals. They intend to be criminals. And one of the reasons we are trying to secure our borders is to keep people like that out of our country. But the vast majority of people who are coming across our borders are not people who wish to do us harm. They are people who come here to work, to do better for their families. They want a better life. They are people who want jobs. Their countries do not provide the number of jobs to absorb them into the system. So they go to a neighboring country--our country--to seek those jobs. Is this good for our country?…”