Immigration Policy and Border Security

This administration, the Bush administration, has done nothing to control

the problem that we have.

We've had five million undocumented workers come over the borders

since George Bush took office.

It has become an extraordinary problem.

And the reason the American people are concerned is because they are

seeing their own economic position slip away.

And oftentimes employers are exploiting these undocumented workers.

They're not paying the minimum wage. They're not observing worker safety laws.

As president, I will make sure that we finally have the kind

of border security that we need. That's step number one.

Step number two is to take on employers.

Right now, an employer has more of a chance of getting hit by lightning

than be prosecuted

for hiring an undocumented worker.

That has to change. They have to be held accountable.

Start shedding some light on the problem, and we can once again be a nation of laws

and a nation of immigrants.

That's what I intend to do as president of the United States.