[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 59 (Monday, April 26, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H2856]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       ARIZONA'S IMMIGRATION LAW

  (Mr. BURTON of Indiana asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Madam Speaker, what are the people in Arizona 
supposed to do? What are the people in Texas supposed to do? Or New 
Mexico?
  I hear this rhetoric on the floor here about how the law in Arizona 
is unconstitutional. I've looked at that. I don't think its 
unconstitutional. And I think they have an obligation to protect the 
people of Arizona from the drug terrorists that are coming across the 
border in droves. They're bringing drugs illegally into the United 
States. We've got illegal aliens coming across in droves in the Arizona 
area into the United States and the government of the United States is 
doing absolutely nothing.
  The border between us and Mexico is 1,980 miles long. We've talked 
about securing that border for a long time, and we have not done it. 
Those border States have to deal with this on a daily basis and the law 
enforcement agencies down there have a Herculean job to deal with.
  And so I would just like to say to my colleagues, I don't think it's 
racial profiling for them to stop people that they suspect of being 
here illegally who may be dealing in drug trafficking and who may be 
threatening the lives of people down there because the crime rate is 
going out of sight. Let's support the people of Arizona and the law 
enforcement people down there. They have a right to make sure that 
they're safe.

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