mr. rohrabacher. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for three minutes. rorkrork i rise in -- mr. rohrabacher: i rise in opposition to the rule and dream act. the american people are opposed because they understand it is nothing more than mass amnesty that will undoubtedly encourage millions more to illegally come here to our country and we are being told by the other side of the aisle this is not amnesty. if it walks and quaks like a duck and this may be a lame duck, but it is amnesty. the dream act focuses on promising young foreigners a bright future if their parents choose to break the law. this will unquestionably bring millions of parents across our borders illegally and once the children gain citizenship, their parents and other members will be put on the fast track to citizenship through family unification and will be eligible for all the rights and services currently enjoyed by american citizens. moreover, if an illegal immigrant happens to be a racial majority, then that ind

mr. rohrabacher: thank you very much. mr. speaker, tonight this congress passed the so-called dream act. several of us on the floor of the house said that this act would be more accurately referred to as the affirmative action amnesty act. the bill is a piece of legislation that the american people should -- that the american people should pay close attention to. and they should see whether or not their representatives in congress are indeed representing their interests. or if they are involved with supporting the interests of people who are not citizens of this country and have come here illegally. now, in this case this bill would not grant amnesty to all illegal immigrants, but instead the reason it's called the dream act is because it would have legalized the status of several million of illegals who are young people in our country. and that supposedly was to -- mr. speaker, can we have order in the house, please? the speaker pro tempore: the house is not in order. please take conversations off the floor. the gentleman fr

mr. rohrabacher and mr. wolf and i have been working on this issue for deck based. even -- decades. even before tiananmen square, we met with our former colleague, now gone from us, tom lantos, to meet with the dalai lama in 1987, i think it was. a couple years later we saw what happened in tiananmen square and at that time as advocates for human rights throughout the world we were advocating for human rights in china as well. for a long time we had that debate. was joined then by our colleague, david wu, and others in this important statement. it said, if we are advocating for human rights throughout the world which this congress has done over and over again, we lose all moral authority to talk about human rights to the rest of the world if we do not talk about human rights in china. despite the commercial interests we have in china, despite a number of other issues that have been called to our attention. and so the news is that the nobel committee had awarded the nobel peace prize to liu xiaobo came as good news to those of us who had been calling attention to this issue for a ver