[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 4434]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     LONE STAR VOICE: GARY SPURGER

  (Mr. POE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. POE. Mr. Speaker, Gary Spurger of Humble, Texas has written me 
about unlawful entry into the United States. He says:
  ``I am writing you as I sit here and listen to the news and watch on 
TV the protests against immigration policy reform. I am tired of seeing 
those protesters walking the streets that we taxpayers pay for, using 
our school buses and resources and then waving Mexican flags and 
chanting `Mexico, Mexico.'
  ``Please do not be blinded by the protests supporting illegal 
immigrants. If we don't take care of us then we will not have the 
ability to help others less fortunate. Allowing illegal immigrants to 
siphon off resources that they provide no compensation to will in the 
end be the fall of our society.
  ``We need to take heed of the lessons of history such as Rome. It 
fell from the inside by allowing fractured and discordant groups to 
maintain their own unique identity to the extent that it caused Rome to 
no longer be Rome but nothing more than a bunch of little other 
countries. Recent history is teaching us just by looking at France, it 
is no longer French but so inclusive to the point that France is 
nothing more than a hodgepodge of other cultures, not French.''
  Mr. Speaker, people that come to the United States must do so legally 
and they must expect to assimilate into this country and become 
Americans.
  And that's just the way it is.

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