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




                        SECURE THE BORDERS FIRST

  (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, we are seeing it everywhere we go and we 
are hearing it from all of our constituents every time we go home, 
every time we hold a town hall meeting, and every time we show up in a 
local community: illegal entry into this country and the presence of 
those who have made a decision to break the law to come here.
  Illegal immigration is an issue to be addressed, and here it is on 
the front page of The Washington Post. Twelve hundred miles from the 
border, U.S. border town, yes, indeed, by those individuals who would 
choose to enter the country illegally. Every town has become a border 
town and every State has become a border State.
  I encourage our colleagues to hang tough in this debate and stay with 
the House bill where we secure the border first.

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