DeMint Statement on Immigration Deal

May 17th, 2007 - Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator DeMint made the following
statement:

"I hope we don't take a thousand page bill written in secret and try to ram it
through the Senate in a few days. This is a very important issue for America and we
need time to debate it."

"But the little we do know about the bill is troubling. According to reports, the
bill contains a new 'Z Visa' that allows those who entered our country illegally to
stay here permanently without ever returning home. This rewards people who broke the
law with permanent legal status, and puts them ahead of millions of law-abiding
immigrants waiting to come to America. I don't care how you try to spin it, this is
amnesty."

Senator DeMint is chairman of the Senate Steering Committee, a caucus of conservative
senators that includes the majority of the Republican Conference