[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 14545]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           IMMIGRATION REFORM

  (Ms. FOXX asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. FOXX. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to support Republican efforts 
aimed at curbing our Nation's immigration problem.
  House Republicans are determined to send a bill to the President that 
will secure our borders, punish employers who knowingly use illegal 
labor, make English our official language, and remove incentives for 
immigrants to enter our country illegally.
  However, some Democrats seem determined to undermine our Nation's 
immigration laws. They support the Reid-Kennedy bill, which will allow 
60 million new immigrants to enter our country over the next 20 years 
and will guarantee Social Security benefits to immigrants for the time 
they were in America illegally.
  Mr. Speaker, rewarding those who break our laws is not the way to 
deal with America's immigration problem. This is an issue we cannot 
afford to compromise on, and I encourage my colleagues to support 
strict immigration reform in the interest of national security.

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