the house will be in order the chair leaves before the house a communication from the speaker the speaker's rooms washington d c july sixteenth two thousand and seven i hereby appoint the honorable maybe k hero no to act as speaker pro temporary on this day sign nancy pelosi speaker of the house of representatives pursuant to the order of the house of january fourth two thousand and seven the chair on now recognize members from this submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate the chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to thirty minutes and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and a minority whip limited to five minutes the chair recognizes the gentleman from virginia mr wolf for five trade relations that is proponents argue that economic liberalization will lead to political liberalization in china that exposing china to the west ideas and values would lead them to play a more constructive role in an international community and that the u s and other industrialized nations could influence china throughout the nama directivity to better respect the rights of its citizens to fundamental human rights instead we're seeing why the protection of basic liberty should not come second to economic growth the china of today is worse than the china of yesterday or of last year or of the last decade and now in addition to all the horrible things that chinese government does to his own citizens it is doing to other countries citizens bacteria and mushrooms laced with illegal pesticides five types of farm raised shrimp and thrifts fish from china banned by the f d a because they're so contaminated from unsaved drugs in china's polluted waterways malfunctioning fireworks from china responsible for critical injuries including from my hometown of the end of a genuine july fourth chinese made tires sold without critical safety features that prevent tread from separating from the tire within a year china will also will be the biggest source in the world of greenhouse gases from all the new cold far power plants being built i could take several one hour special order speeches to details china's egregious human rights record slave labor camps religious persecution including torture imprisonment of catholic bishops protestant church leaders muslim buddhist monks and nuns human organ harvesting and selling sophisticated systems of espionage against the us government and american business is world's leading producer of pirated products then there's china's four and a sudan selling weapons to the very government orchestrating the genocide in darfur and despite all these poor and acts china was still awarded the honor of hosting the two thousand and eight olympics where is the outrage over china's unacceptable behavior in the congress in the ministration the facts are before us the united states can no longer say that things are improving in china next time you make a purchase and you see the words made in china think of the poison toothpaste that contaminated food the polluted waterways and airspace the exploding tires the mouth functioning fireworks the human rights abuses and the the chair recognizes the gentleman from florida and just turns for a five minute solar panel speaker i'm here to discuss why past efforts to stop illegal immigration into our country have failed over the past several decades immigration policy in our country has been somewhat confused unfocused to the point there is widespread and deepening concern that our current policy regarding immigration are not working poorly designed policies and we can force men of immigration laws have led to disturbing vulnerabilities in this country to our security and the millions of illegal immigrants currently in our country continue to be little the naturalization process from a national security perspective preventing illegal entry and reducing those individuals illegally present in the united states is an imperative and uncontrolled immigration system encourage says the circumvention of immigration laws and my colleague is a clear invitation to those who wish to take advantage of our openness to cause this nation harm congress and the president must take credible steps to reduce illegal immigration federal state and local law enforcement must be allowed to enforce existing immigration law but because of the current lack of enforcement the illegal population united states will continue to grow the burden on local communities will increase the stresses on civil society will become greater and border security will become more expensive while remaining just as ineffective furthermore this fai to enforce our immigration laws is tremendously tremendously unfair to millions who have paid the law and went through the rewarding process of obtaining legal citizenship most individuals and families an immigrant to the united states whether legal or legally or illegally come seeking economic opportunity we respect that however unlike previous generations a generous welfare system education health system with generous eligibility draws a disproportionate rate of poor and low skilled immigration illegal immigrants to the united states these thousands of low skilled immigrants and pour into our country illegally each year they drain precious resources from federal state and local governments in my state as in other states they need temporary workers i understand that a balanced and well constructed temporary worker program should diminish the incentives for illegal immigration by providing an additional option for legal temporary labor and in combination with other reforms reduced over the time overtime the current population of illegal aliens this would foster better national security and serve a growing such a temporary workers program would be a valuable compo of a comprehensive immigration reform proposal i recognize that nevertheless my colleague's enthusiasm for such a program in theory must be moderate serious concerns not only about the fair use of such programs in our past attempts and in other countries but also regarding how a new program would likely be implemented and operated in practice and ill defined and poorly construct temporary worker program would make the current problems of immigration policy unfortunately even worse in the mid one nine hundred eighty s congress advocated amnesty for long settle illegal immigrants and considered it a reasonable to adjust the status of what was in a relatively small population of illegal aliens in exchange for allowing aliens to stay border security in the forstmann immigration laws would be greatly strengthened in particular through sanctions against employers who hired this illegal who hired these illegal immigrants however the immigration reform and control act of one thousand nine hundred sixty bill did not solve our illegal immigration problem indeed the lessons of that policy and experiment are clear from the very start there was widespread document fraud by applicants and surprisingly the number of people applying for amnesty far exceeded projections and there proved to be a fairy a political will in enforcing the laws against employers two decades later two decades later later the senate proposed another bill specifically designed to allow the overwhelming majority of illegal immigrants to legally live and work in the united states from day one and eventually become permanent residents and then citizens this was a form of amnesty and that is why it failed securing a future where america's borders are no longer porous its laws are respected and illegal labor is replaced by legal workers and legal immigrants is an achievable object if that we can accomplish more than any other nation in history our country and its system of equal justice and economic freedom beckons not only the downtrodden and the persecuted but also those who seek opportunity and a better future for themselves and their families but by allowing millions of illegal immigrants germanie united states without providing any new significant security guarantees at the border is bad we must control our borders first then in forth the rules and regulations at the border with more security border guards only after that is done should we look at a policy concerning the illegal immigrants in this country that is what the american people want