OF4-4/28/06 9:25AM CONGRESSMAN JIM SENSENBRENNER
The Osgood File. Sponsored in part by Emerson. Whatever the demand, whatever the challenge, with Emerson you can consider it solved. I'm Charles Osgood. Next Monday. May First. a group called the IMMIGRANT solidarity Network is calling "una Dia sin Immigrante" a day without immigrants calling for no work, no school, no sales and no buying. a day long boycott to protest the immigration bill Congress is trying to pass. and to demand amnesty for those who have come here illegally. That's NOT going to happen if Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin. has anything to say about it. And he DOES have something to do with it. He's Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. Sensenbrenner told CBS News Correspondent Byron Pitts recently.
"I think that immigration and controlling our borders is the top issue of concern to Americans, even more than the war." said Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner.
"Even more than the war?" asked CBS NEWS CORRESPONDENT BYRON PITTS.
"Even more than the war." said Sensenbrenner.
"How so?" asked Pitts.
"Because this is a national security issue and it's an economic security issue."
said Sensenbrenner.
More after this for Emerson.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner's home district in Wisconsin is 13 hundred miles from the Mexican border. But he was the one who inspired the recent immigration marches and demonstrations by insisting that illegal immigrants and their employers here. be treated as felons.
"There are a lot of people who have called me names for stepping up to the plate, but if it isn't done I think all of America suffers." said Sensenbrenner/
"How do you think these protests are playing around the country?" asked Pitts.
"The protests have backfired." said Sensenbrenner.
"backfired?" asked Pitts.
"Backfired. Yes waving all those Mexican flags, I think really got under people's skin." said Sensenbrenner.
Sensenbrenner says it his not his goal to put the 11 thousand men women and children here illegally in handcuffs and send them back where they came from. He just wants them to comply with the law. Byron Pitts asked him.
"What do you say to those people, those demonstrators who we've seen across the country, who say I work hard, my family works hard, allow us to stay, we're not criminals." asked Pitts.
"They do work hard, but they are criminals if they entered the United States illegally." said Sensenbrenner
The Osgood File. Charles Osgood on the CBS Radio Network.
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