Political Quotes

“as we begin to discuss this legislation, the immigration bill that is before us, a lot of people have not realized it is coming up. A lot of people do not realize the breadth of it and a lot of people are concerned about it. We have gotten a lot of phone calls in my office. People are wondering who is speaking up about the bill and they want to know what is in the bill. So I think that is a big part of what we should be doing in the days to come--going over the bill in a careful way concerning any progress the bill makes and any deficiencies the legislation has. As I noted previously, the fundamental challenge we must recognize-- based on the way Congress works and the difficulty it has had with these issues over the last number of years--is that we have to be sure that once the amnesty is granted that there is enforcement in the future. In 1986, that bill, as Senator Grassley has so passionately delineated--he voted for it. Amnesty was given to 3 million people, but the enforcement never occurred, and now we have 11 million people here illegally. This cannot happen again. If we allow this to happen again, we will have eviscerated any ability we have to ask people to comply with the law because people who do not comply with the law are not held to account. There is nothing wrong with saying a person can come to America under certain conditions for certain periods of time and then they must leave.…”