Immigration

Immigration

America is a land of immigrants. Most of us, my family included, descend from
immigrants. The Third District has been fortunate enough to have a large number of
hard-working Hispanic Americans move here to help grow our economy. But, as you
know, we have lost control of America's borders. In today's world, this is not
acceptable. We have to secure our borders and fix the system by which immigrants come
to this country.
I supported a comprehensive bill to reform immigration and secure the borders, H.R.
4437. To strengthen the border, I support more personnel for the Border Patrol and
Customs, and I back the use of military, if necessary. New technologies can and should
be used to improve our border security and keep out illegal immigrants, and the drug
smugglers and possible terrorists who hide among them.
American businesses must be held responsible, too. I support making verification of the
citizenship status of all employees mandatory. It takes just a minute or two and can be
done on-line by any employer. This will likely have the helpful side effect of reducing
other types of identity theft as well.
I do not and will not support any amnesty provision in any legislation. We should not
reward people who break the law with amnesty. I also believe that not enforcing the laws
on the books is unfair to immigrants who have legally come here and to U.S.-born
citizens. During my time in Congress, I have always voted against amnesty and I will
continue to do so.

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