Political Quotes

“as I have looked at the legislation-- and we have wrestled with what goes in it--I will just share with my colleagues my perspective, having been in charge of enforcing Federal laws as a U.S. attorney in the interior of the country. We need to understand a couple things. The border is very important. There has been wide open illegality at our borders for years. San Diego, a number of years ago, was having drugs, crimes, violence. They built a fence and prosperity rose on both sides of the fence. Crime went down. It just had to be done, and they have been very happy with it. That helps a lot, and it is not at all impossible for us to get our border under control today. It does not require that much more than current capacity, but what we need is an absolute commitment from the President and the Director of Homeland Security to get that done. We have lacked that. I want to move beyond just the requirements of the border. There are other areas that are critical to having a lawful system of immigration. Those include entry-exit visas, and that includes workplace enforcement. Under current law, Congress has passed--and actually there have been six laws to this effect in the last 10 years--these laws require that there be an entry-exit biometric visa system at all air, sea, and land ports. The 9/11 Commission recommended that.…”