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One-Minute Speech By US Rep. Gary G. Miller of California.
Washington,
Jul 12, 2006 -
Mr. GARY G. MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, the American people
expect us to stop the flood of illegal immigrants coming to this
country. In order to do that we need to secure our borders. We need to
crack down on employers that hire illegals and preserve American jobs
for Americans. We need to reject all forms of amnesty. Many talk about a guest worker program. I think most
reasonable people believe that a guest worker program in the farming
industry, perhaps in the gardening and landscape industries, is
reasonable. Beyond that we need to look at what the need of America is,
not the need of foreign countries and where they want to place their
people. We need to absolutely reject again all forms of amnesty. We
need to increase enforcement on current immigration laws. Today, currently, business owners can go out and find out
if the person they are hiring is eligible to work here or if they are
not. We need to think about how we are impacting workers. In 1973 the
average manufacturing jobs paid $15.24 an hour. In 2004 it paid $15.26
an hour. An American worker should not expect his pay to be cut because
somebody comes to this country illegally and is willing to work for
less than he or she should be paid. We need to protect Americans and
protect their jobs.
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