[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 5]
[House]
[Pages 6372-6373]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION REFORM

  (Mr. VARGAS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. VARGAS. Madam Speaker, I rise today in favor of comprehensive 
immigration reform, especially one that respects the heroic work and 
heroic lives of our military.
  We've now heard from many military personnel who have said that what 
they fear most is that their spouses are going to be unfortunately and 
dastardly taken from them and deported. We heard from a young marine 
over at the Russell Building who is going off to Afghanistan for his 
third tour of duty. He said that he is not afraid of dying. He says, 
``That's what marines do--we fight and we die.'' His only fear is that, 
when he is gone, they may deport his wife back to Mexico, and then he 
doesn't know what he can do to help her or their two children.
  So we have to change the law. The law is not fair. How can the law 
possibly be fair when our military men

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and women are under this kind of threat? I stand here today to say that 
we have to have comprehensive immigration reform, especially one that 
respects our military.

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