[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 17528]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           IMMIGRATION REFORM

  (Mr. FLAKE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. FLAKE. Mr. Speaker, today the Senate will hold hearings to start 
the process for comprehensive immigration reform. We will soon start 
those same hearings hopefully in the House.
  As we begin this, I simply want to remind everyone here that we 
believe in the rule of law. We need to enforce the rule of law. We need 
to enforce our Nation's laws, but in order to do so, we have to have 
laws that we can enforce.
  Those who say let us enforce the law, the current law, and then have 
a temporary worker program have yet to offer a proposal to actually 
enforce the current law, which would require that the 10- to 15 million 
illegals who are now, most of them, working in jobs would actually be 
deported to their country of origin and subject to a 10-year bar from 
reentry.
  If that is what people mean by enforcing the current law, then please 
offer a proposal to do so. But, if not, then let us work together on a 
comprehensive plan for comprehensive immigration reform that has a 
guest worker plan and also a provision to enforce the new law. That is 
what we need to do in this country.

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