[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 22 (Tuesday, February 6, 2007)]
[House]
[Page H1216]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         RUSSIAN BORDER CONTROL

  (Mr. POE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. POE. Mr. Speaker, a government spokesman has said people from 
poor countries are taking jobs and giving nothing back to the country. 
But the government spokesman was not from the United States, but 
Russia.
  Under a new Russian crackdown on illegal immigration, illegals are 
being ordered out of the country and employers who hire them are being 
prosecuted. Russia is also securing its visa program against fraud. All 
of these actions are working. The illegals are leaving the country by 
the thousands. No massive deportation is needed, no amnesty or path to 
citizenship.
  Similar to the United States, millions of illegals are crossing 
Russian borders. They take government resources from legal citizens. 
The Russian Government, however, unlike the U.S. Government, isn't 
giving in to those who want cheap plantation labor. The Russian 
Government doesn't care if illegals or businesses don't like the new 
rules.
  Russia is enforcing border security by prosecuting illegals and those 
that hire them. The U.S. Government could learn something from Russia. 
Prosecute businesses that knowingly hire illegals, and illegals will 
leave. Russia has proven it. But does America have the moral will to do 
the same? We shall see.
  And that's just the way it is.

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