[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 20]
[House]
[Page 27536]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           SECURE BORDERS NOW

  (Mr. PRICE of Georgia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PRICE of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, while home over the past 2 weeks, 
constituents kept asking me, when are we going to do something about 
illegal immigration? When are we going to take this problem seriously?
  Congress should act now, and one thing is critically clear: Our 
borders must be secure. Before we do anything else, we must stop the 
flow of illegal immigrants, and this must be done now.
  A hard deadline is important, a date after which we will tolerate no 
violation of the border, and that is exactly what H.R. 3693 does. It 
ought not be too much to ask to bring accountability to the prevention 
of illegal immigration.
  For that is what it is all about, is it not? Accountability. Those 
who break our immigration laws should be held accountable. Those who 
hire illegal aliens should be held accountable. Those who turn the 
other way and claim there is no problem should be held accountable.
  Mr. Speaker, we have a large and a growing crisis in our country. It 
is our responsibility to act on behalf of our constituents and our 
Nation. Simply put, if our borders are not secure, then our Nation is 
not secure. The time to act is now.

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