[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19658]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION

  (Mr. FLAKE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. FLAKE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to conclude a series of 
commentaries I have been making on illegal immigration and to find a 
solution to the Nation's current immigration woes. We in Arizona feel 
this in particular.
  Over the past 8 months, I have been working with the gentleman from 
Arizona (Mr. Kolbe) to put together a comprehensive foreign worker 
program, a temporary worker program, which recognizes the way people 
organize and order their own lives, that recognizes that we need a 
rational policy to deal with the situation that we have along our 
Nation's borders.
  We need to understand that we not only need to deal with those who 
want to come to our country to work on a temporary basis, but for those 
who are here illegally as well, and find a solution that will both 
encourage those who are here illegally to come out from under the 
woodwork, and to come into a legal framework and to provide an 
opportunity for those who wish to come and fill our Nation's labor 
needs to do so.
  I am pleased that this will be introduced today, and I encourage my 
colleagues to look at it and join us in the debate and ultimately 
support it.

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