[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13844]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                             ILLEGAL ENTRY

  (Mrs. BLACKBURN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. BLACKBURN. Mr. Speaker, today I rise to invite the Senate to 
join the House in debating how we are going to address illegal entry 
into this country. We are hearing from our colleagues today reporting 
back on the hearings that we are holding around the country, talking 
with sheriffs, talking with Border Patrol, talking to people on the 
ground.
  We are hearing the same thing: stop illegal crossings. It is time. 
Get this problem under control.
  Mr. Speaker, in this environment every State is a border State and 
every town is a border town. Meanwhile, the other body holds hearings 
talking about everything under the sun related to immigration except 
the actual process by which people come into this country illegally.
  Until our colleagues across the Capitol are willing to admit illegal 
entry is the problem, we are going to continue seeing a debate that 
goes nowhere. We should address the problem. Illegal entry is the 
biggest problem, and then take on the next angle of the issue, and do 
it in an orderly process.
  That is what our House leadership is saying, and they are right on 
the issue.

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