[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 14024]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                           IMMIGRATION REFORM

  (Mr. GARY G. MILLER of California asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GARY G. MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, the American people 
expect us to stop the flood of illegal immigrants coming to this 
country. In order to do that we need to secure our borders. We need to 
crack down on employers that hire illegals and preserve American jobs 
for Americans. We need to reject all forms of amnesty.
  Many talk about a guest worker program. I think most reasonable 
people believe that a guest worker program in the farming industry, 
perhaps in the gardening and landscape industries, is reasonable. 
Beyond that we need to look at what the need of America is, not the 
need of foreign countries and where they want to place their people. We 
need to absolutely reject again all forms of amnesty. We need to 
increase enforcement on current immigration laws.
  Today, currently, business owners can go out and find out if the 
person they are hiring is eligible to work here or if they are not. We 
need to think about how we are impacting workers. In 1973 the average 
manufacturing jobs paid $15.24 an hour. In 2004 it paid $15.26 an hour. 
An American worker should not expect his pay to be cut because somebody 
comes to this country illegally and is willing to work for less than he 
or she should be paid. We need to protect Americans and protect their 
jobs.

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