[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 82 (Thursday, May 27, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H4077]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
ADMINISTRATION GIVES FALSE IMPRESSION
(Mr. SMITH of Texas asked and was given permission to address the
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
Mr. SMITH of Texas. Mr. Speaker, one day after the administration
announced that President Obama would send National Guard troops to
secure the border, the State Department announced that--surprise--the
Guard troops would not be used to stop illegal immigration. This
suggests the National Guard announcement was designed to leave
Americans with a false impression that the administration was going to
strengthen border security.
There appears to be a contradiction within the administration; we
don't know who to believe from one day to the next. We are starting to
learn on health care, on taxes, on transparency, on the stimulus, and
now on immigration policy that the administration's words are seldom
what they appear to be.
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