[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 110 (Tuesday, July 15, 2014)]
[House]
[Pages H6290-H6294]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
THE VIOLENCE IN ISRAEL
The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Rodney Davis of Illinois). Under the
Speaker's announced policy of January 3, 2013, the gentleman from Texas
(Mr. Gohmert) is recognized until 10 p.m. as the designee of the
majority leader.
Mr. GOHMERT. Mr. Speaker, I greatly appreciate that recognition.
First of all, I would like to direct attention to the Middle East, to
our dear friend and ally, Israel, and the fact that I pointed out to
Prime Minister Netanyahu twice, a few years apart, that going back to
the very inception of Israel as a nation more than 3,000 years ago,
there has never been a time when Israel gave away land trying to buy
peace, that that land was not ultimately used as a staging area from
which to attack it.
It has been true all those years, the original founding of Israel,
the promised land, going through the division of Israel into two
kingdoms, northern and southern, and then the rejuvenation really of
that nation in the late 1940s.
No matter which President, no matter which party the President was
from, no matter which Secretary of State was pushing to get a Nobel
Peace Prize by trying to bring people together, anyone that pushed and
forced Israel to give away land ended up bringing about attacks on
Israel because they gave away land that should have been Israel's.
Southern Lebanon has been the source of so many attacks and
kidnappings, intrusions into Israel. The Gaza Strip had so many Israeli
families living peacefully, greenhouses, methods of taking care of
themselves.
In an act--a unilateral act by Israel to attempt to secure a bit of
peace, Israel gave away the Gaza Strip, now governed by Hamas, a
terrorist organization that the United States through this
administration is funding because we are funding the Palestinians and
they have the relationship now with Hamas.
So we are taking American tax dollars from many people in the United
States who do not believe it is a good idea to curse Israel and to
supply money to its enemy, so Israel can be attacked, and yet, that
money is being taken and given to them.
They can say because money is fungible, where we are not actually
using the money you give us to attack Israel, and they can also claim
they are not actually using the money that we give them to teach hatred
in textbooks and all kinds of ways actually, including the naming of
holidays after barbarians who have committed attacks on innocent people
and killed innocent people. They name holidays after them. They name
streets after them.
Here in the United States, we tend to name holidays or streets after
people like Martin Luther King, Jr., who subscribed to peaceful means
of protest, who would never encourage killing or attacks to achieve
what Hamas and the PLO have utilized.
It is time to cut off the money. Until they quit teaching hatred,
they quit utilizing funds to attack Israel, you cut off their funds.
You cut off the teaching of hatred, and you have got a shot at some
semblance of peace in the Middle East.
In the meantime, Israel is being attacked--every day, the rockets
flying, hoping--the Palestinians hoping that maybe they will kill some
innocent Israeli people.
Wouldn't that be great, they are thinking, if we could just kill
maybe some children, maybe blow off some legs and arms? What a great
accomplishment Hamas and the PLO can be thrilled about.
Of course, Hamas took over from the PLO in governing, but the area is
no more peaceable, and it is time to cut off all American funding to
any area that subscribes to the shooting of rockets to kill innocent
people, as is going on in the Middle East, enemies of Israel attempting
to kill innocent Israelis.
There was an attempt by Israel to enter into an Egyptian-brokered
cease-fire with Hamas, but according to The Jerusalem Post story, by
Yaakov Lappin, that collapsed Tuesday when Gazan terrorists continued
to fire rocket barrages on the south, center, and north of Israel.
A fragment from a mortar shell killed an Israeli man, Dor Chanin, 37.
Chanin had come as a civilian volunteer to distribute food to soldiers
at Erez.
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It is time to quit aiding and abetting the attacks on our friend
Israel. It is time to start helping them.
And when it comes to the disastrous effort to negotiate with
terrorist leaders in Iran--they are developing nuclear weapons. They
are developing the ability to develop nuclear weapons because they have
their centrifuges spinning. And I think those who say they want enough
nuclear material to produce several nuclear weapons at the same time,
they are not going to just do one. They are going to wait until they
have enough to do several so that they can spread out, be difficult to
track and be difficult to stop before they utilize them to destroy
Israel, as the Little Satan, as they see it, and the United States, as
the Great Satan.
It has been described in one of Joel Rosenberg's novels far too
accurately: Even though Iran is developing intercontinental ballistic
missiles that could carry nuclear warheads to the United States--``the
Great Satan'' they call us--they really don't even need those. They
could put them on a cargo ship, a yacht, whatever, and bring them
over--have one in New York, have one in Chicago, have one up the
Potomac. And they could pretty well devastate American economic
powerhouse cities. If they put one in New Orleans, the Houston ship
channel, there goes most of our refined gasoline.
It is time for America to wake up. This administration is not
adequately protecting us, and that is why our Attorney General has now
finally admitted this month, in an ABC interview, that, in effect, he
is extremely concerned and in fear more now of a terrorist attack than
he has been at most any time in his time as Attorney General. And this
is a guy that knows terrorism. I mean, he has helped terrorists in his
role prior to working for this administration. He is quite familiar
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what they are capable of doing. So for him to say that, people ought to
take notice.
Of course we have our Secretary of State, John Kerry, in an article
of July 15 from The Weekly Standard by Jeryl Bier. The headline,
``Kerry: I Get `A Little Uptight When I Hear Politicians Say How
Exceptional We Are.'''
Heaven forbid that we should realize the capability of America and
that there is no other nation in the history of the world that has
fought, has lost lives of our military, has spent tremendous amounts of
our treasure not to create an empire, but simply to bring liberty and
freedom to people we don't even share languages with, we don't share
religions so much with. Nations haven't done that. America is an
exceptional nation, and we are losing that exceptional status.
So perhaps I will make our Secretary of State feel much better and be
much prouder as I say that under this administration--as has been
pointed out to me by Africans in Nigeria, by Africans in Togo--the
United States has gotten much weaker in world opinion under this
President. So that should make our Secretary of State feel very, very
pleased because a Member of Congress is not claiming to be exceptional.
We are. But really, I am claiming that Nigerians and others who were so
pleased, as they told me, that you elected your first Black President
have now grown scared as they have watched America, under this
President, get weaker and weaker and become far less exceptional in the
eyes of the world as we once were.
One of the problems has been that this country has been under
assault, has been under an invasion through our southern border. As
border patrolmen will attest, the Tucson sector of our 2,000-or-so-mile
border on the south had traditionally been where there were more people
coming into this country illegally.
We have an area in Arizona where there is a national park on the
American side, where the sign has been seen--and I have had a picture
of it here on the floor--during the Obama Presidency that simply
directs American citizens, warns them not to use this area because
there are criminals and drug activity in the national park. So American
citizens are encouraged to use an area north of the interstate because
this administration has just pretty well relegated that area to
criminals from outside of this country. That would mean that is a
failure to adequately provide for our common defense, and it might be
support for Andrew McCarthy's book title, ``Faithless Execution.''
Now, I feel like the appropriate thing to do is to pass the
resolution that I filed a year ago here in this House that goes through
explaining how the President has failed to secure our country, has
failed to secure our borders. We don't want our borders closed. I
certainly don't. Immigration is a wonderful thing. There is no country
in the world where they have five times our population, or less--no
country allows 1 million people or more to come into their country
legally. We do.
We love immigration. It is a great thing. ``E pluribus unum,'' the
Latin phrase meaning, out of many, one, has been a part of the Great
Seal since the 1770s. It is on the ribbon that runs through the beak in
the eagle's mouth on one side of the Great Seal.
I was taught, growing up, that our melting pot is one of the many
things that has made us so great. People come here, assimilate, speak
the same language, love the same country, and become Americans.
Well, we have seen hyphenated Americans become the order of the day
in recent years. And I so look forward to the day, if it ever arrives--
and I hope and pray it does--when, once again, we are Americans.
I know on 9/12/2001, as I looked around our courthouse square, the
hundreds of people there--all races, both genders, lots of national
origins--but that day, we were all Americans. There were no hyphenated
Americans, not on 9/12. Through the tragedy and the hate and the death
and the sorrow of 9/11/2001, on 9/12, we saw our Nation shine, a
compassionate nation, a caring nation, but also a nation committed that
we would not be struck again.
And now--I mean right now--our Attorney General, under this
administration, refused to prosecute what a Federal district court said
were the named coconspirators of those convicted of supporting
terrorism, which was echoed by the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
These were front organizations for the Muslim Brotherhood. There was
plenty of evidence to support that they were coconspirators with the
convicted defendants in supporting terrorism, and this administration,
this Attorney General, refused to prosecute them.
Under this administration, they even got a heads-up from Russia, you
have a Muslim coming back in named Tsarnaev who has been to a terrorist
area. He has been radicalized. And Russia warned not once, but twice.
And this administration that has removed information about radical
Islam from its training materials for the different departments--and I
have reviewed some of it that they have removed.
We were told that most of it that they removed from the FBI training
materials. Well, people who have not been allowed to fully see and be
trained on what radical Islam is were sent out to the mosque where
Tsarnaev went regularly, not to ask questions about has Tsarnaev talked
about Qutb that wrote ``Milestones'' that Osama bin Laden credits with
having brought him along the road to terrorism, to violence. They
didn't know the questions to ask. So the only reason we had the FBI
sent out under this administration was for the outreach program.
They were so ignorant that while the outreach program was going on,
what was really happening and what had happened at that mosque and who
had been radicalized and who had not, that the Director of the FBI did
not even know that the founder of the two Muslim mosques there in the
Boston area were founded by a man named al-Amoudi, who had helped the
Clinton administration and then helped the Bush administration until he
was found to be supporting terrorist activity. He was arrested just
right out here at Dulles International Airport, and he is now doing
over 20 years in Federal prison for supporting terrorism. He was the
founder of the Islamic Society of Boston, which founded those mosques.
The FBI Director didn't even know. They didn't go out there and talk
to anybody about whether or not Tsarnaev had been radicalized. But lo
and behold, they said, hey, we talked to Tsarnaev himself, and he
didn't admit that he was radicalized. And we talked to his mom, and she
didn't admit that he was radicalized. So apparently they thought he was
good. And people died and lost limbs in Boston.
Instead, we have seen spying on American citizens to an extent that
it is hard to believe we have reached here in America, where you have
the NSA getting everybody's phone logs of all calls they make--and this
is all reported in public formats, in the public media--where you have
the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that was established to
protect us from unscrupulous banks and banking habits and practices.
That was done when we had a majority of Democrats in the House and
Senate. They set it up where that Bureau would never have to be
responsible to Congress at all. We could never have oversight. They
would get their money from the Federal Reserve so they could run
independently. And what have they done? Well, they have been gathering
debit and credit card purchase and use information on Americans.
Some of us think that if they really want to protect us from
unscrupulous bank practices, they ought to wait until we tell them that
we have been treated unfairly and then go after the criminal. That is
really what the Constitution Bill of Rights anticipates. You don't go
gathering everybody's personal information, except on probable cause.
You get a warrant.
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But not now. This administration has the CFPB that is gathering
information in the name of protecting us. I don't want that kind of
protection. I want them to leave us alone and quit drawing and
gathering all the personal data on people in America. It is none of
your business unless there has been a crime, and then, and only then,
your gathering should be based on probable cause.
We have got the ability of the United States Government to use
drones, thermal imaging, and all kinds of technology to spy on American
citizens
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like never before. We have the ability, as this administration has
shown, to be concerned about an American citizen in Yemen who was
radicalized, who was a terrorist, even though he had met with people in
this administration, met with people in the prior administration, and
had led prayers here on Capitol Hill of Muslim staff members. Wouldn't
it have been interesting if this administration had decided to capture
him during one of his numerous trips into the United States instead of
blowing him up in Yemen? It might have been interesting to find out
what he had to say about the people he worked with in this
administration and the prior administration on Capitol Hill.
Well, how, one might wonder, could an American citizen be radicalized
to hate Americans so well? If you go look at his life, his parents were
not American citizens. They came into the United States on a visa for
college. That is when he was born and taken back to Yemen. In Yemen
growing up he learned to hate America.
How many people has this happened to? We know the Muslim Brother who
was leading Egypt and weaponizing the Sinai, which is still an area of
devastation because of all the weapons Morsi made sure were there.
Morsi's wife had a daughter here in the United States, an American
citizen, and obviously he didn't care a whole lot for America.
So I had a resolution a year ago that just went through all the
whereases explaining that there is no need to pass any bill through the
House and Senate to secure our border or to do immigration reform until
the President actually goes through the effort of securing our borders.
He has got the money. Some people have already forgotten that Secretary
of Homeland Security Napolitano just announced one day that even though
Congress had appropriated $4 billion to provide a virtual fence in
areas that a fence would be difficult, she just decided that was not
practical, too expensive. So she would not do a virtual fence. And so
what happened to the $4 billion? What happened to our security? Well,
we didn't get secured, and we didn't get the virtual fence. There was
clearly some wasted money in that area. But we still have got to get
control of our border.
But when you have a President who has not done anything significant
to secure our border but has, in fact, pronounced a new law, the
initials of which are DACA, he just pronounced a new law that had not
been passed by Congress but had simply passed the lips of our
President. Here is the new law. Here is what you can do to get amnesty.
And he pronounced amnesty in what USCIS has announced has been over
550,000 cases. Our President pronounced an amnesty law into effect that
provided amnesty already to over 550,000 people who had come in
illegally.
The New York Times and others have said that just in very recent
months, we have had an additional 300,000 people come into our country
illegally. And, this week, we get the report that 38 people have been
deported. Well, if you do the math, that means that those 850,000 who
came in illegally who had a 100 percent chance of getting to stay here
because of this administration not enforcing our law and not enforcing
our border, that 100 percent chance of getting to stay here got
dramatically reduced. Because of this administration's wonderful
efforts, it has now been reduced from a 100 percent chance of staying
here to a 99.9955 percent chance of staying here. And that should
certainly scare anyone who had started planning a trip into this
country illegally, that their odds of staying here had dropped from 100
percent clear down to a 99.995 percent chance of getting to stay here.
I still come back to the resolution I filed a year ago. Until the
President shows he is going to secure the border, we shouldn't pass
anything. As our own Speaker has said, we can't trust this President.
When the Secretary of Homeland Security can just say, I don't want to
spend $4 billion you guys appropriated for a fence, I am going to do
something else. Really? Well, I guess you can do that if you are a bit
lawless.
But if we are going to be a nation of laws, then laws that have been
duly passed by Congress and signed by other Presidents should be
enforced, otherwise we become like the countries that people are
fleeing.
It was rather emotional Saturday night to be down right near the
river where children and adults were being processed--processed meaning
they have to ask each one of them numerous questions, normally in
Spanish. And there are some articles of clothing they are not allowed
to take in to the detention area. And when she was asked, were you glad
to leave home, she began to cry. She didn't mention she was so glad to
get away from all the violence. She didn't mention that things were so
terrible at home she couldn't stand to stay, she looked so forward to
coming to America. She cried. She missed her home. She missed her
relatives that were there. Break your heart. One of the most beautiful
little girls I have ever seen. It is a wonder she didn't get drawn into
sex trafficking. She was a gorgeous little girl. And I know beautiful
girls. My wife and I have had three.
Border Patrolmen have talked about, and it has been reported, dead
children. Their bodies have been found, one washed up. As this
administration continues to lure people into America, that has now been
admitted by this administration, that the President's own amnesty bill
that he pronounced into law has been luring people up here. Secretary
of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson admitted that in an op-ed that he
wrote for Spanish-language newspapers. It is time to stop luring young
children and adults into the United States into the arms of human
traffickers. It is time to stop.
Of course, I mention there is one way that we could stop very quickly
the massive invasion that is going on because the ability to stop an
invasion like we are seeing now was even anticipated by our Founders,
and they put it in the third clause of section 10 of article I of our
Constitution. That says:
No State shall, without the consent of Congress, lay any
duty of tonnage, keep troops, or ships of war in time of
peace, enter into any agreement or compact which another
State, or with a foreign power, or engage in war, unless
actually invaded.
Not by a foreign army, it doesn't say that; not by a military, it
doesn't say that; just invaded. And there is a great law review article
from a Michigan law journal that discusses this provision. It has not
been utilized before. There are no cases that we can find that have
utilized this. But perhaps it is time to use it now.
But it says, unless actually invaded or in such imminent danger as
will not admit of delay.
The Attorney General himself has said the threat of another terrorist
attack is scarier now than it has been. And we know that there is an
increased number of what are called SIAs, those who would be special
interest aliens that come from countries like Syria, Afghanistan, and
Pakistan. They are coming in from nations where there are leaders who
want to destroy us.
It is worth trying to make sure we don't have terrorists coming
through our southern border because we know there are lots of people
coming through that don't get caught. Even though, as one of the border
patrolmen said here when I was down there: It is interesting--we used
to chase them, and now they chase us. Talking about people coming in
illegally.
But not all of them chase the Border Patrol. If someone is paid
megabucks to be brought into the United States, it can be done, while
Border Patrol is spending an hour, hour and a half processing a massive
number of groups coming in, 10, 12, 16, 18, 27, and they are having to
process all those, and we have such a limited number of border
patrolmen, plenty of opportunities to bring in anybody the drug cartels
have been paid to bring in with whatever they are bringing.
So we have a resolution. It hasn't been filed yet, but it says:
Whereas this provision in the Constitution, therefore,
recognizes the continued right of individual States to use
force in self-defense if ``actually invaded, or in such
imminent danger as will not admit of delay'';
And whereas an unprecedented, organized, mass invasion of the United
States is occurring along our southern border;
Whereas before this invasion Marine Corps General John Kelly,
commander of the U.S. Southern Command, or SOUTHCOM, in testimony
before committees in each House of Congress, the House Armed Services
Committee in
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February, and the Senate Armed Services Committee in March, warned of
the security threats to the United States from criminal networks and
terrorist organizations penetrating the United States through our
southern border and since the invasion he has warned that the situation
poses ``an existential threat to the United States'';
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This general who has been overseeing our military in our southern
area says that the threat to our country is a threat to our very
existence. Our continued existence is at risk with what is going on at
the southern border. This resolution goes on:
Whereas, credible sources have reported plans for an even
larger invasion;
Whereas, between June of 2012, when the Obama
administration unilaterally implemented the Deferred Action
For Childhood Arrivals (DACA) through March of 2014,
approximately 550,000 illegal aliens received temporary
deferred action, according to USCIS;
Whereas, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh
Johnson admitted that DACA was in fact luring people to cross
the U.S. border, whether they were eligible for the deferred
action or not, in an opinion editorial he wrote for Spanish-
language newspapers;
Whereas, a court order signed on December 13, 2013, by U.S.
District Judge Andrew S. Hanen of the U.S. District Court for
the Southern District of Texas found as factual that ``The
DHS, instead of enforcing our border security laws, actually
assisted the criminal conspiracy in achieving its illegal
goals.'' The U.S. Court also found that a private citizen
doing the exact things that DHS is doing ``would, and should,
be prosecuted for this conduct.'' Additionally, the Court
found that ``The DHS has simply chosen not to enforce the
United States' borders laws,'' and that the ``DHS is
rewarding criminal conduct,'' and that ``these illegal
activities help fund the illegal drug cartels which are a
very real danger for both citizens of this country and
Mexico'';
Whereas the State of Texas reported it has identified,
between October of 2008 and April of 2014, a total of 177,588
unique criminal alien defendants booked into Texas county
jails who are responsible for at least 611,234 individual
criminal charges over their criminal careers, including 2,993
homicides and 7,695 sexual assaults;
Think about that, Mr. Speaker: 177,588 criminal aliens booked for
crimes in Texas. People are being killed in America and specifically,
according to these figures, 2,993 that we know of by criminal aliens in
this country. And they have committed at least 7,695 sexual assaults.
You want to talk about a war on women, this administration will not
defend the women of America from criminal aliens by the thousands and
hundreds of thousands. Well, we know thousands, and we know people are
coming in by the hundreds of thousands illegally, and this
administration wants to talk about other people having a war on women
when they will not defend the women that are being sexually assaulted
by illegal aliens in this country. In Texas alone, we know of 7,695
such assaults:
Whereas the Department of Homeland Security, through the
General Services Administration, issued a solicitation in
January, 2014, which proves the falsity of statements by
officials in that Department, that they had no knowledge that
this mass invasion would occur;
Whereas in 2014 there has occurred a sharp increase in the
number of Special Interest Aliens apprehended illegally
crossing the United States border, being from terrorist-
sponsored or affiliated countries such as Syria, Afghanistan,
Pakistan, Nigeria, and Somalia;
Whereas Attorney General Eric Holder acknowledged in an ABC
news story in July of 2014 that there exists a clear and
present danger of imminent terrorist attack from ``a
situation that we can see developing'' and ``more frightening
than anything I think I have seen as Attorney General'';
Whereas the Commander in Chief of the United States appears
to be either unwilling or unable to exercise his
constitutional responsibility to defend this country from
imminent danger or invasion;
Resolved, it is the sense of the House of Representatives
that all Governors of the States along the southern border,
and other States willing to assist them, are urged to
exercise the right of self-defense against invasion or
imminent danger as will not admit of delay as provided for in
article I, section 10 of the United States Constitution.
Some would say, How would you pay for that?
Well, how about for one thing we eliminate the child tax credit for
people who are here illegally that are getting back much more, many
thousands more dollars, than they actually pay in?
How about--and we are told a hundred billion or so is sent by people
who are illegally in this country to their home country--how about, for
allowing people to be here illegally, we put a 5 percent tax on that
$100 billion going out of this country? We could pay for whatever we
need very quickly.
Well, we have a bill that has been filed. It has gotten a lot of
acclaim, and in the remaining minutes I would just like to look at some
of this bill that my good friend, Senator John Cornyn, and my good
friend, Henry Cuellar, a fellow House Member, have filed. We have a
copy of what is being proposed. It has been sent to different folks on
Capitol Hill. And it does, at page 2, take a shot at changing the
William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act
of 2008. It makes a shot at fixing that. How ironic that Wilberforce,
the champion of ending slavery in all of the British Empire, had this
bill named for him that was supposed to help stop sexual trafficking,
but as a result of this bill and the President's Deferred Action for
Childhood Arrivals, as a result of that bill countless children have
been lured into sexual slavery.
We can't even be told a number, but we are told that it is definitely
happening. As the drug cartels are paid to humanly traffic people up,
they find people who would make attractive sex slaves, and so an effort
to stop sexual trafficking has actually helped create more. But anyway,
the first few pages deal with that.
It does say on page 4 that such person may not be placed, talking
about unaccompanied children--which, by the way, having been to the
border a number of times, it is clear to me there is no child coming
across the border unaccompanied unless they are teenagers. The children
you see are accompanied by somebody. And even if the coyote leaves them
right before they go into the custody of Border Patrol, they were
accompanied right up until that time. But unaccompanied minors under
this proposed new bill may not be placed in the custody of a
nongovernmental sponsor or otherwise released from the custody of the
United States Government until the child is repatriated unless the
child is the subject of an order under section 235(b)(1) of the
Immigration and Nationality Act.
It goes on, the next section, 102, defines the term ``asylum
officer,'' which means an immigration officer, and it puts some pretty
tough conditions, including has had substantial experience adjudicating
asylum applications. So that means we are going to have to have people
who have been doing this a lot. You couldn't have fair judges sent
there if they haven't had substantial experience adjudicating asylum
applications. That seems a little unnecessary.
Anyway, then it sets deadlines, 7 days and 72 hours shall issue an
order, but then it does indicate if it is impractical by reason of an
alien's mental incompetency for the alien to be present, the Attorney
General shall prescribe safeguards to protect the rights and
privileges of the alien. The alien shall be given the privilege of
being represented at no expense to the government, shall have a
reasonable opportunity to examine evidence, present evidence, and
cross-examine witnesses.
On page 8 is Withdrawal of Application for Admission. In the
discretion of the Attorney General--and that is the guy that hasn't
been enforcing the law as it is, who is currently in contempt of
Congress, who has been obfuscating on Fast and Furious and on other
serious crises in our government, has at least been complicit in
failing to bring forth evidence and to prosecute people timely,
including the IRS scandal, and now we are going to give him a lot of
discretion here, that is a matter of concern.
Anyway, it says based on a preponderance of the evidence, the judge
has got to find that the alien is likely to be eligible for any form of
relief of removal. Anyway, basically what it is saying is that in
general, an applicant for admission must establish by a preponderance
of the evidence that the alien is likely to be eligible for any form of
relief from removal. So if they just say, well, there is a good chance
we are likely to be eligible, not that we are going to prevail, but it
is just likely we are going to be eligible, then they get to go around
that requirement.
If an immigration judge determines that the unaccompanied alien child
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not met the burden of proof required under the subsection, the judge
shall order the alien removed unless the alien claims an intention to
apply for asylum or that the alien has a fear of persecution. So we
have some rigorous steps in here in this bill, and they will be ordered
to be removed, unless, of course, if the alien claims an intention to
apply for asylum or a fear of persecution. Well, that lets him sidestep
some of those requirements.
Page 11, if the officer determines credible fear of persecution, the
alien shall be held in the custody of the Secretary for Health and
Human Services. Really, I thought that had been one of the problems
created by prior law, of giving custody to Health and Human Services.
For heaven's sake, let's leave custody with the people dealing with the
immigration issues. Let's leave it in Homeland Security. Let's not be
transferring people to another department because we have seen what HHS
does. They transfer them all over the country, and there are
consequences there because now we find out that under a HUD
requirement, those people may be eligible for housing which will allow
the government to rezone your neighborhood.
With that, I yield back the balance of my time.
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