. >> democratic congresswoman loretta sanchez from california sits on the homeland security committee. and republican congressman brian bilbray of california is a member of the house immigration reform caucus. i want to get to this issue of birthing, or birthers because there's part of this legislation out there that are basically going to say future presidential candidates, they have to have birth certificates. let's start with this general issue. congresswoman sanchez, what's wrong with the state trying to

and now you've signed a law that if you really read it says someone like loretta sanchez, a hispanic, goes into arizona, now what type of credentials am i supposed to carry with me? what -- you know? and the other night, last night i had one of my colleagues say, we can tell they're just different. >> right. >> what do you mean? well, they dress differently. they even wear different shoes. you know, i don't think so. >> it's madness. >> it's -- it really is a crazy thing to see. >> now let me ask you the definite devil's advocate problem. specifically in arizona, people are being kidnapped in phoenix by drug cartels, people pulling people out of homes and taking them back to mexico and holding them for money. these are not imaginary problems. they may not be a million per two million cases, but they are happening. so what is the solution that this so clearly is not the solution? >> well, the first thing that is a solution is that we need to handle the immigration issue. what does that mean? we believe it's three prong. i believe it's a three prong solution. first, understand who's to

joining me right now, congressman loretta sanchez. welcome to you. >> thank you. >> i'm curious if you think or have the same concerns that were articulated earlier. that this is going to lead to racial profiling, this law? >> well, certainly we as americans have always even been against the id card. you know, we think about our freedoms and really nobody carries around or is required to carry around paperwork. all of a sudden you've got a class of people who will have to have some sort of paperwork on them. i know as a hispanic i worry somebody will stop me, i don't carry my birth certificate around. i'm born in california. what does that mean? they're going to start deporting me? i think we really need to think about why would you stop somebody? we already stop people from a federal level if they are committing another crime or misdemeanor. if they've hit into somebody, got a traffic accident. this would be just stopping people and asking them for paperwork. i think it does have the probability of racial profiling. >> okay. you're v

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now is democratic congresswoman from california, who sits on the homeland security committee, loretta sanchezwith us from tucson, arizona, republican state senator, frank antinori, who represents three counties along the arizona-mexco border. frank, how do you feel? >> i feel good. this is a long-overdue piece of legislation. and i hope that the congresswoman is listening this is also arizona's cry for help. a help cry that we've been making for about 15 years. and has been falling on deaf ears at the federal level. so since the federal government isn't helping us, we now have to step up and help ourselves. and this is bill, now a law, that will go a long way to starting to enforce the laws that the federal government should be enforcing. >> congresswoman, your reaction? >> well i would say to the senator, first and foremost, we don't have a law at the federal level that goes after people and stops them simply because we suspect that they are hispanic or that they are an illegal alien. we don't have that law. so for him to say that he is -- >> congressman -- >> for him to say that he is enfor

. >> democratic congresswoman loretta sanchez from california sits on the homeland security committee brian bilbray of california is a member of the house immigration reform caucus. i want to get to this issue of birthing, or birthers because there's part of this legislation out there that are basically going to say future presidential candidates, they have to have birth certificates. let's start with this general issue. congresswoman sanchez, what's wrong with the state trying to enforce the law, the federal government never seems around to enforcing? they have half a million illegal immigrants in arizona. the federal government has dropped the ball. why shouldn't the state of arizona pick it up and do the job? >> well, actually the federal government has put more resources. many of the law enforcement agencies in arizona are under 287-g but what we find is they're not very well trained about what the rights are of people. so the problem with the law like this is that, for example, i'm hispanic. so if i go to arizona, does that mean i have to carry a copy of my birth certificate? and

loretta sanchez of california. mr. marshall of georgia. mr. garamendi of california. mr. quigley of illinois. mr. smith of washington. ms. woolsey of california. mr. defazio of oregon. ms. kaptur of oregon. excuse me. of ohio. under the speaker's announced policy of january 6, 2009, the gentleman from missouri, mr. akin, is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the minority leader. mr. akin: thank you, mr. speaker. it's a treat to join you and my colleagues once again this evening and talk about a subject that has been troublesome to all of us for some number of months now. that is the state of the economy, the problem with unemployment and the various causes and factors that caused some of the tremendous level of distress economically which we've been experiencing. and sometimes it's helpful as we weigh into a rather broad subject about jobs and the economy, it's good to take a look back a little bit and see what we can learn from some of the lessons of history and how we got into the mess in the first place. some of the first rather troubling signs of the conditi