[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 160 (Monday, October 22, 2007)]
[House]
[Pages H11780-H11781]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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  (Mrs. BLACKBURN asked and was given permission to address the House

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for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. BLACKBURN. Mr. Speaker, the issue we hear of regularly is 
national security, from Tehran to Turkey, back to the local community: 
How does it impact me? That is what our constituents are asking. They 
are concerned about security from the national and the local level. I 
think many of them are frustrated that those of us in Congress haven't 
done anything to address the criminal illegal alien situation.
  I want to let the body know last week the Board of Supervisors in 
Prince William County, Virginia, took a stand by unanimously approving 
a tough local crackdown on illegal immigrants. They are doing it to 
make their community a safer place. It denies some county services to 
illegal immigrants and adds to enforcement powers already available to 
cops on the beat.
  We can do the same thing at the Federal level with the bipartisan 
CLEAR Act, which I introduced last month. It would get dangerous 
criminal aliens off the streets and require the Department of Homeland 
Security to pick them up within 48 hours.
  It is H.R. 3494, the CLEAR Act. I would encourage my colleagues to 
cosponsor this bill and do what the Prince William supervisors have 
done: put citizen safety first.

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