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Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005

Date: Dec. 16, 2005
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Immigration


BORDER PROTECTION, ANTITERRORISM, AND ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION CONTROL ACT OF 2005 -- (House of Representatives - December 16, 2005)

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Mr. GUTIERREZ. Mr. Chairman, I stand in opposition to this amendment. I think that we should move forward and make sure that we have the groundwork for a program that allows, as President Bush has stated, those who work hard, play by the rules, to come out of the darkness and come out of the shadows and come forward.

I do not think we should criminalize it at any level. We have administrative review now. We have civil penalties. We have a process. And I do not see why we should change that process, if indeed, as the chairman has said and so many people have said, that, next year, we are coming back to fix this thing.

Well, let us not cause any interruptions in fixing this thing. I said we should not criminalize this in the first place just on principle. We have civil statutes that deal with this.

So I stand, and the Hispanic Congressional Caucus has unanimously adopted a position to stand against this motion and this amendment in particular.

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