[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 6 (Wednesday, January 16, 2008)]
[House]
[Pages H28-H29]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                      EMPLOYERS WHO HIRE ILLEGALS

  (Mr. POE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. POE. Madam Speaker, during a routine traffic stop, an illegal 
immigrant named Juan Leonardo Quintero-Perez shot Houston Police 
Officer Rodney Johnson in the back of the head and killed him. This 
case highlights the illegal immigrant epidemic in this country.
  It seems, however, that Juan Quintero-Perez had already been deported 
before from the United States. In 1998, Quintero was arrested and 
convicted of indecency with a child in Texas and then was deported back 
to Mexico. But Perez was able to return to the United States a few 
months later because his employer, Robert Camp, sent money to Mexico to 
hire a smuggler that snuck Perez back to Houston.
  Camp knew that Quintero-Perez was an illegal immigrant and a 
criminal, but Camp hired him again anyway. Camp even rented a home for 
Quintero-Perez, and then Perez murdered Officer Johnson.

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  Those who knowingly hire and house illegal immigrants, all in the 
name of making a little money, should go to jail. Rodney Johnson's 
blood is on the hands of the employer who brought the illegal outlaw 
back to the United States.
  And that's just the way it is.

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