[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 20]
[House]
[Pages 27768-27769]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     BORDER SECURITY AND PASSPORTS

  (Mr. POE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. POE. Mr. Speaker, the 9/11 Commission report concluded: 
``Americans should not be exempt from carrying passports when they 
enter the United States, nor should Canadians or Mexicans. The 9/11 
experience shows that terrorists study and exploit America's 
vulnerabilities.''
  Exempting anyone from carrying a passport when crossing into the 
United

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States is blatantly ignoring the commission's suggestions and is posing 
yet another serious vulnerability in our country's border security.
  Neither Mexican nor Canadian visitors are required to show a passport 
to enter the United States, despite the fact that they rank number one 
and number four respectively as the largest sources of illegal 
immigration in the United States. Small wonder the governments of those 
nations oppose passports to enter America.
  We need to do what is best for the United States, not what is best 
for Canada or Mexico. The 9/11 Commission stated that the United States 
is still at risk by not requiring passports to enter this country. Our 
border is seriously vulnerable. What is it going to take for us to 
figure this out?
  Congress must make serious changes in our immigration policy before 
we lose the sovereignty of this Nation and become a Nation illegally 
colonized by other nations. That's just the way it is.

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