[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 97 (Friday, July 22, 1994)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
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 MOTION TO INSTRUCT CONFEREES ON H.R. 3355. VIOLENT CRIME CONTROL AND 
                      LAW ENFORCEMENT ACT OF 1933

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                               speech of

                           HON. HENRY BONILLA

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, July 21, 1994

  Mr. BONILLA. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I man consume.
  Mr. Speaker, first of all I would like to once again thank the 
gentleman from Kentucky [Mr. Mazzoli] for his remarks in support of 
this motion. I concur with his analogy that he drew about the front 
door/back door argument; the front door is legal immigration in this 
country, and there is no one who supports someone going through the 
legal process more strongly than my colleague from Kentucky and myself, 
and I wanted to make that point very clearly. But it is the back door, 
illegal immigration, that is causing problems for people, not only in 
the communities along the border, but for those who choose to try to go 
through the legal process, doing it the right way, trying to become a 
citizen of this wonderful country of ours. So, I appreciate those 
remarks and wanted to point that out.
  I also would like to make a point, as we close, about the Border 
Patrol and the dedication. As my colleagues know, here in Washington 
today it is probably 90-some-odd degrees, and the humidity is roughly 
the same, about 90 percent, or it feels that way anyway, but along the 
border in many of these communities where the temperature is reaching a 
hundred degrees and the high humidities, these people that serve our 
country in a most dedicated away are out there working every day in 
climates that often never see anything but very hot temperatures every 
day, but nonetheless go out and face their job every day with the 
greatest dedication, and also never complaining, but always just 
wanting a little bit more help from us here in the Congress, and that 
point I would like to make very strongly.
  I would also like to mention that the vote on the original Hunter-
Cunningham amendment was passed by 417 to 12, and, if that is not a 
good show of bipartisan support, I do not know what is.

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