Political Quotes

“as this discussion and debate over the immigration reform has gone on, I have made a number of statements. I think many of them, unfortunately, have been proven true. I said the bill did not promise enforcement at the border. Now apparently we are waiting again to see where this amendment comes. They claim it will dramatically improve enforcement at the border. And we have not seen it yet. Maybe it will not appear. But they say it will. It was in the newspapers yesterday and said it would fix everything with the bill. Well, of course, it will only deal with the border, apparently, in any significant way. There are many other serious flaws in this legislation that simply have to be addressed. I also complained that we had all these secret meetings and groups there, and the public interest, the law enforcement interest, was excluded. The only people who were there were special interests. I have talked about that. And I talked about the influence of the White House meetings and directing the agenda and how the bill was all written. Well, today's New York Times has a story about that. I think it is relevant for us to read because it is further confirmation that we have an elite group of people with special agendas meeting to draft legislation that is going to impact all Americans. It is going to impact the entire country, and nobody is speaking up for the average American citizen in any effective way that I can see. They are not even being thought about.…”