[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 17182]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          UNDOCUMENTED WORKERS

  (Mr. KENNEDY of Rhode Island asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KENNEDY of Rhode Island. Mr. Speaker, I just want to respond to 
the previous speech, and that is to say I wish that we would call 
people ``undocumented workers.'' I do not think it is too much to call 
people ``undocumented workers'' because that is who they are. Many 
times people are working hard in our communities, with families, who 
are trying to get their families food at night, a place for them to 
sleep.
  To call them aliens, I think, is demeaning to them, and I think it is 
derogatory, and I think it is unfitting for this country to refer to 
people in that manner. And I would hope that, in the rest of the 
debate, instead of calling them ``illegal aliens,'' Members would call 
them what they are, and that is ``undocumented workers.''

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