Rep. Gary Miller Takes Strong Stand Against Amnesty Bill

California Rep. Gary Miller (R-Calif.) took a strong stand against Rep. Luis Gutierrez’s mass amnesty bill in a statement released earlier this week. Rep. Miller called the Democratic sponsors of the bill “misguided” and “out-of-touch” in their policymaking.

Rep. Miller represents California’s traditionally conservative 42nd district just east of Los Angeles. So his constituents feel the impacts of exploding population first-hand.

In his statement, Rep. Miller said…

Today’s introduction of amnesty legislation once again displays the breadth of Congressional Democrats’ misguided and out-of-touch policies. With over 15 million Americans unemployed and seven million illegals employed, amnesty legislation is an affront to American citizens and legal residents. It is simply wrong to award citizenship to those that have recklessly disregarded our nation’s immigration laws.

Rather than enacting a ‘comprehensive’ plan that would put illegals on a path to citizenship, I believe that Congress must take an enforcement-first approach to solving our nation’s immigration and border security. To this end, my bill, the Loophole Elimination and Verification Enforcement Act, will stem the inflow of illegal aliens by securing our borders, denying access to American jobs, and closing loopholes in our government programs that provide access to benefits. With an enforcement strategy, the United States could reduce the illegal population by as many as 1.5 million each year, which would more than halve our current illegal alien population in five years. By securing the border and ending the job magnet, illegals will lack incentives to cross the border and the illegal alien population will begin to dwindle.