[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 86 (Thursday, May 24, 2007)]
[House]
[Page H5729]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
REJECT AMNESTY FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS
(Mr. CULBERSON asked and was given permission to address the House
for 1 minute.)
Mr. CULBERSON. Mr. Speaker, as Members of Congress return home for
the Memorial Day weekend, as we honor the sacrifices of our men and
women who have given their lives in defense of our Nation and of its
values, I hope that every American will remind their elected
representatives that in honoring that sacrifice, our elected
representatives have an obligation to uphold the rule of law, to
preserve our borders and to preserve this Nation's financial security
for the future.
In so doing, every American ought to demand that their elected
representatives reject this monstrous amnesty bill, which proposes to
legalize 14 to 20 million illegal aliens, honoring those who have
broken our laws, threatening the financial security of the Nation by
more rapidly bankrupting Social Security and all of our financial
social welfare programs, and driving this Nation more rapidly towards
that financial brick wall which is so rapidly approaching.
In my office, 100 percent of the phone calls received have been in
strong opposition to this bill. Every other Member of Congress from the
Republican side that I have visited has received equally strong
opposition.
I think it is vitally important for Americans to rise up, as we did
in the Dubai ports deal, and demand that our elected representatives
honor the sacrifices of our fallen soldiers by rejecting this mass
amnesty bill over the Memorial Day break.
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