[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12209]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 WE MUST ACT NOW ON IMMIGRATION REFORM

  (Mr. DENHAM asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. DENHAM. Madam Speaker, first, I would like to extend some thanks 
to Chairman Gowdy and Ranking Member Lofgren, not only for giving me 
the privilege and the honor to speak before their Subcommittee on 
Immigration yesterday, but as well to have conversations in my district 
and to have conversations in my State with a number of constituents 
that are affected by our immigration policy.
  This is something we have to act on now. This is something for which 
we need to make sure we've got a top-to-bottom approach. It is an issue 
on which Republicans and Democrats can actually come together that is 
vitally important to our economy and to the greatness of our country: 
making sure that our border security is actually secure, not only with 
a fence and greater law enforcement, but by actually redeploying the 
security technology and surveillance equipment from Afghanistan; making 
sure that we've got the internal security as we move forward--an E-
Verify system--making sure that we can actually verify the jobs within 
our communities so we can address not only jobs, but the high 
unemployment in so many areas; making sure that we actually have a 
temporary worker program so that we can address our ag economy.
  Let's make sure that we have a top-to-bottom approach. So I ask that 
this body address this in a bipartisan fashion.

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