[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 63 (Friday, May 7, 2004)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E792]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  LOSS OF JOBS TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION

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                           HON. SCOTT GARRETT

                             of new jersey

                    in the house of representatives

                         Thursday, May 6, 2004

  Mr. GARRETT of New Jersey. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to remind my 
colleagues that our constituents at home continue to struggle with the 
loss of jobs to both cheap foreign labor; where employers pay just a 
fraction of what is paid here, and also provide no paid benefits of any 
sort. They are losing jobs here at home to illegal immigration.
  Illegal immigration has risen to a staggering rate. Nearly 1/2 
million illegal aliens enter this country every year. These law-
breakers, are taking the jobs that are held by and needed by our 
citizens.
  They also drain the much needed and limited social services that 
would normally go to American citizens, who either themselves, or their 
families came to this country legally.
  No nation can consider itself a sovereign nation if it cannot define 
where its borders begin and where they end. And it certainly cannot 
consider itself sovereign if it cannot determine who is and is not 
allowed entry into that nation. Without such control, a nation loses 
its ability to protect the rights and liberties of its people.
  Our founding fathers were no less certain in this respect, when 
Governor Morris stated at the constitutional convention: ``every 
Society, from a great Nation down to a Club, had the right of declaring 
conditions on which new members should be admitted.'' Congress should 
be no less adamant. American citizens are struggling for work. They 
should not be the victims of a system that turns its back to illegal 
immigration.




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