David Obey: “One of the most important is the privacy issue, the illegitimate use of Social Security numbers to allow anyone who uses…”

“One of the most important is the privacy issue, the illegitimate use of Social Security numbers to allow anyone who uses the Internet to invade the privacy of each and every American if they are shrewd enough on how to go about it. That is a very serious issue. With respect to the immigration issue, it is important to understand that all the President is asking is that we provide the same rules for people who came from countries like Salvador as we provided at the request on two occasions of members of the majority party, for refugees from Nicaragua and several other Latin American countries. All of these people are here already. There is not one additional person who would come into the United States. You have already made the decision to provide an easier way for people to stay in this country for those people, and we are simply asking that that same principle be applied to others. You are just as dead if you have been killed by the Salvadoran death squads, as you are if you were killed by the Sandanistas. And I think the President is on perfectly good ground.”