[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 2902]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                          CHILDREN OF COLONIAS

  (Mr. REYES asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. REYES. Mr. Speaker, I rise to speak about a special group of 
students who are here in Washington this week. They are young people 
from my district who live in Colonias. These are communities on the 
southwest border without water, electricity, roads, education, and very 
poor health services. Unfortunately, Mr. Speaker, we have thousands of 
Americans living in these third-world conditions along our southern 
border.
  With today's unprecedented prosperity, this is an unbelievable 
tragedy. Therefore, it is important to hear their stories. They will be 
providing testimony today from 3:45 to 5:30 in the Cannon Room 340. I 
ask my colleagues to listen with me and to commit to provide resources 
to make Colonias a safe and secure place to call home.
  I want to recognize these students from my district. They are Alicia 
Contreras, Ubaldo Fernandez, Chris Herrera, Janet Dunbar, and Gilbert 
Vasquez.

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  We owe these students the amount of resources to provide them the 
hope and opportunity that all of us as Americans deserve.

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