[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 9]
[House]
[Pages 11874-11875]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              IMMIGRATION

  (Mr. GINGREY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GINGREY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of effective, fair, 
and secure immigration reform, not the amnesty plan passed by the 
Senate this month.
  The Senate plan allows millions of illegal immigrants to get a green 
card and a path to citizenship. Mr. Speaker, let me ask you, what does 
this say to all the law-abiding people patiently waiting to become 
American citizens? It says they should have sneaked into our country 
and ignored our immigration laws like everyone else.
  Mr. Speaker, there is a better way to achieve meaningful immigration 
reform, and I am committed to passing the right kind of bill. We need 
to secure our borders first; give businesses a fail-safe way to ensure 
the workers that they hire are legal; and above all, start enforcing 
the immigration laws already on the books. Until we can accomplish 
these goals, any so-called ``reform plan'' will be little more than a 
recipe for failure.
  Mr. Speaker, I ask that you and all of my colleagues join me in 
standing firm and saying ``no'' to the Senate's amnesty plan.

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