[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 5]
[House]
[Pages 6662-6663]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




          NAPOLITANO IS WRONG TO INVESTIGATE THE INVESTIGATORS

  (Mr. SMITH of Texas asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SMITH of Texas. Mr. Speaker, recently Homeland Security agents in 
Washington State arrested an illegal immigrant gang member, discovered 
he worked at a manufacturing plant, then began to investigate the 
employer and arrested 28 illegal immigrants. Instead of praising their 
good work, though, Secretary Napolitano said she would investigate the 
investigators. Amazing.
  Secretary Napolitano took the wrong side. She should stand up for 
U.S. citizens and legal immigrant workers, not the illegal immigrants 
who take their

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jobs. She should stand up for the law enforcement officers who are 
doing their jobs, not the special interests who favor amnesty.
  It does not bode well for citizens and legal immigrant workers alike 
that when it comes to worksite enforcement, this administration is 
investigating the investigators instead of the law breakers.

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