[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 65 (Tuesday, May 23, 2006)]
[House]
[Page H3024]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    RENEWING THE AMERICAN DREAM: THE REAL RATIONAL MIDDLE GROUND ON 
                           IMMIGRATION REFORM

  (Mr. PENCE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PENCE. Mr. Speaker, one week ago President Bush set out his views 
on immigration reform to the American people. He stated, ``There is a 
rational middle ground between granting an automatic path to 
citizenship for every illegal immigrant and a program of mass 
deportation.''
  I agree with the President that there is a rational middle ground 
that can be found between amnesty and mass deportation, but amnesty is 
not that middle ground.
  Today at the Heritage Foundation, here in Washington, DC, I will 
unveil the real rational middle ground on immigration reform. I call it 
the Border Integrity and Immigration Reform Act. It sees the solution 
to this crisis as a four-step process. First, secure the border. The 
second step is to make the decision once and for all to deny amnesty to 
people whose first act in the United States was a violation of the law. 
Third, is to put in place a guest worker program without amnesty that 
will efficiently provide American employers with willing guest workers 
who come into America legally. The final step is tough employer 
sanctions that ensure a full partnership between American business and 
the American government in the enforcement of our laws on immigration.
  There is a real rational middle ground on immigration reform, and I 
hope and humbly submit the Border Integrity and Immigration Reform Act 
might just be it.

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