[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 72 (Tuesday, May 12, 2009)]
[House]
[Page H5409]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           THOU SHALT NOT ASK

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. With the rash of crime by foreign nationals in the 
city of Houston, coupled with the recent shooting of two Houston police 
officers by illegals that were previously deported, the Houston Police 
Officers Union wants to end the archaic, absurd policy of not 
questioning people about their immigration status.
  President Gary Blankenship of the union bluntly says, ``My guys are 
tired of dealing with criminal aliens. The severity of the crime is 
escalating''. He advocates weeding out dangerous criminals from the 
illegal community. He clearly says he doesn't want to round up the 
400,000 illegals in the Greater Houston sanctuary community--just 
capture criminal illegals.
  But whoa there! You can't do that, saith the mayor and the open 
border crowd. That's insulting. That's probably racial profiling. The 
nerve of the police to ask people their legal status. That might scare 
them. And that's the Federal Government's job.
  So Houston will continue the policy of ``Thou Shalt Not Ask'', and, 
for political expediency, prefer the desires of the illegal community 
over the safety of the police, the citizens, and the legal immigrants.
  And that's just the way it is.

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