| Immigration |
April 25, 2013 |
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Marco Rubio, R-FL
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"On the other hand, the decisions that created that problem were made in 1985 and in 1986, when I remind people that I was in ninth grade. As a policymaker, what I now confront is this reality that we have 9, 10, 11 million human beings living in the United States in violation of our immigration laws. To add to that, most of these people have been here more than a decade. They have children who are U.S. citizens. They may even own property. They work, they are here, and they are never going to go back. We have to deal with that fundamental reality as well."
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| Marketplace Fairness Act—Motion To Proceed |
April 18, 2013 |
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Marco Rubio, R-FL
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"This is the story of immigration in America, and it is why we as Americans understand that legal immigration is critically important for our future and a critical part of our heritage. The problem is that for too long both Republicans and Democrats have failed to enforce our immigration laws, and the result is that today we have millions of people living in the United States in violation of our immigration laws. The other problem is that our legal immigration system is broken. It is just broken. It doesn’t reflect the 21st century. It doesn’t take into account special skills and talents. It doesn’t allow us to attract the world’s best and brightest. In fact, it doesn’t allow us to keep the world’s best and brightest, many of whom are students in our universities who learn from our best schools—that our taxpayers are paying for—and when they are done learning, we ask them to leave and take what they have learned here and use it somewhere else to compete against us. It makes absolutely no sense."
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| Immigration Reform |
January 29, 2013 |
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Jeff Sessions, R-AL
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"This timeline shows how Mr. Morton and the administration have undermined enforcement. Most Americans do not fully understand the real effect of these immigration policies. In reality, right now, if a State law enforcement officer apprehends someone for speeding and discovers, for example, that he is illegally in the country, the result is that nothing happens. They do not even bother to call the Federal law enforcement officers to report they have apprehended someone who is in violation of our immigration law. And the reason they do not call is because nobody will come and get them."
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| There Goes The Rule Of Law |
June 27, 2012 |
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Louie Gohmert, R-TX
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"What we’ve seen over and over from this administration is a complete disregard for the rule of law. When you look at all the people who have been drawn into this country illegally, in violation of our immigration laws—even though there is no country in the world that allows the immigration that this country does and the wide open gates that we do. But we do have parameters."
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| Water Quality Investment Act Of 2009 |
March 12, 2009 |
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Brian Bilbray, R-CA
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"But I would ask the chairman to be aware of the fact that although we will be able to tell the public, and the public will be able to know, where their money is going and how it is being spent, there is still that issue the American people are very upset about, what the Senate did to the stimulus package, and that is the issue that the public will not know: Are the people who are getting the jobs legally in the country? Do their Social Security names and numbers match? And will the public be able to know how many legal residents and Americans got this job as opposed to somebody who is in violation of our immigration status? The E-Verify was a great bipartisan effort here in the House. For us to abandon that as a minimum standard to allow the public to know, I disagree with that."
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