[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 1005]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




    THE ADMINISTRATION IS NOT SERIOUS ABOUT IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT

  (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, the President's budget proves once 
again that the Obama administration is not serious about enforcing our 
Nation's immigration laws. They found money for 25 new positions in the 
Secretary of Homeland Security's management office, but there is no 
funding for a single new immigration detention bed, no new money to 
find and deport immigration fugitives or criminal aliens, no additional 
special agents to investigate workplace immigration violations, and no 
money to expand the visa security program. The President ought to use 
immigration enforcement to open up jobs for American workers. Instead, 
the administration maintains the status quo. Citizens and legal 
immigrants will be forced to continue to compete with 8 million illegal 
immigrants for very scarce jobs.

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