[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 77 (Thursday, May 20, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H3666]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          READ THE ARIZONA LAW

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, administration officials are 
criticizing Arizona's new illegal immigration enforcement law, and they 
haven't read the bill. The Attorney General hasn't read it. The 
Secretary of Homeland Security hasn't read it. Some State Department 
radical compared the Arizona law to human rights violations in China, 
but he hadn't read the bill either. But that hasn't stopped them all 
from criticizing the Arizona law they know nothing about.
  Mexico President Calderon spoke here today and lectured us on our 
illegal immigration laws. He said the Arizona law opens the door to 
racial profiling. If the President had read the law he would know it 
does nothing of the sort. In fact, in four places the law prohibits any 
profiling.
  I wonder if President Calderon has read the law he has been 
criticizing. It doesn't appear he has read his own country's tough 
illegal immigration laws either, but he takes the time to arrogantly 
denounce our laws. All of these critics don't want the truth of the law 
to get in the way of their indignant demagoguery and political agenda.
  And that's just the way it is.

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