And here we see the extent to which even Republicans will lie when it comes to illegal aliens.
First, there is nothing in this bill which improves the operations of the INS, which is a completely overworked, underfunded, and (as a result) broken organization. The bill simply dumps another 600,000 illegal aliens into the dysfunctional INS, thereby hurting each and every legal immigrant who is in the system legally and by extreme and tedious effort.
Second, families are "victimized" (to quote Armey) because one or more members of the "family" are in the United States illegally. This is literally saying that the families of criminals are "victimized" because our judicial system exercises "bureaucratic indifference" by exercising the law.
Like the Southwest families having to live behind barred doors and windows, having to pack heat when they roam their ranches and having anything that isn't nailed down subject to theft. Sounds to me like Americans are the ones being victimized. What was Congress thinking?