Congressional Record—Senate S3406

S3406 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE May 26, 2011 [He] sat alongside President Barack Obama all of Ouattara’s people. These are the The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. on Friday and declared that Israel would not ones our State Department supported, BEGICH). The Senator from Illinois. withdraw to the 1967 borders to help make and it is serious. Amnesty reports that Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, first, I way for an adjacent Palestinian state. a manhunt was launched against thank my colleague from Oklahoma. Obama had called on Israel to be willing to do just that thing a day earlier. Gbagbo loyalists in Abidjan, and sev- He and I share a passion and interest in Prime Minister Netanyahu said his Nation eral senior officials close to him were the continent of Africa. He has trav- could not negotiate with a newly constituted beaten in the hours after his arrest. eled there many more times than I Palestinian unity government that includes This is a picture of the Secretary of have. We have talked about the situa- the radical Hamas movement, which refuses the Interior. We had a hearing the tion on that continent. I give special to recognize Israel’s right to exist. other day, and our State Department accolades to him for continuing to And its commitment to Israel’s de- tried to say Ouattara is hiring a lot of raise questions relative to that con- struction. the people from the Cabinet of Laurent tinent and the people who live there. It Those are the seven reasons I believe Gbagbo. There is the Secretary of the is an important part of the world, and the land belongs to Israel. We need to Interior. They shot him in the face so for far too long it has been exploited. respect that, and we need to declare: it would take a long time to painfully I am glad, on a bipartisan basis, we God bless Israel. die. He died. both believe the United States should f Here is another member of the Cabi- focus more attention on that impor- net being executed. This is what is tant continent. I thank the Senator. COTE D’IVOIRE going on. Nobody cares. Anyway, I f Mr. INHOFE. Mr. President, I know I care. have a couple more. I would like to What we are looking at right now is DREAM ACT cover one last topic because something the Ouattaras publicly. Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, it was 10 is about to happen in the next week. There is a way out of this right now. years ago I was contacted in my Chi- Some people are going to be killed. It What has happened is Ouattara is try- cago office by a mom, a Korean Amer- has nothing to do with Israel; nothing ing to figure out a way to kill the ican. She had a problem. She had come to do with the subject here. It is very President and the First Lady. I will to this country from Brazil with her serious. wind up by letting you know and see- young daughter. The family was origi- You might recall six different times ing firsthand what we are talking nally from Korea, but they came to the on the floor of the Senate I have talked about. country from Brazil. Her daughter about the problems that are taking President Gbagbo is someone I have came at the age of 2 and grew up in place in a country in West Africa called known quite well. He is a jovial guy. Chicago. She was a bright girl with a Cote d’Ivoire. The fact is we had a This is a picture as I remember him. I lot of talent and particularly turned President—his name is Laurent spent a lot of time with him. This is out to be a musical prodigy. By the Gbagbo—with his wife Simone. They right after his arrest. He was beaten al- time she was ready to graduate from were ruling when an election came most to death. We see what has hap- high school, she had offers to go to the along. It was stolen from him by a man pened to his face. best music schools—the Manhattan named Alassane Ouattara. He is in the His wife is a beautiful lady, Simone School of Music, the Julliard School of northern part of Cote d’Ivoire. Gbagbo. I have been with her many Music. What I have tried to show—I ex- times. She is a beautiful lady. She is As she filled out her application plained well before this all happened, the First Lady. I first knew her 15 forms, there was a little blank that before we got involved, that France years ago when she was a member of said ‘‘citizenship.’’ She turned to her and the United Nations and now our Parliament before they were married. mom and said: What am I supposed to State Department are joining in with There she is. You will not find a more put here? Her mom said: I don’t know. them. This picture was in yesterday’s beautiful lady than that. There she is, We never filed any papers. You were paper. This is one of Ouattara’s death after they ravaged their home— brought in here at the age of 2. We bet- squads that are killing people in Ouattara and the United Nations in ter do something. Abidjan, which is the capital. agreement with our State Department. Her daughter said: What are we going I show this picture. It is one that This is what she looked like the next to do? shows this is still happening today. Re- day. They went in and grabbed her by Her mom said: We are going to call prisal attacks are still being com- the hair and pulled her hair out. You Senator DURBIN. mitted by forces loyal to Alassane can see other things happened to her. They called my office hoping to come Ouattara of Ivory Coast 6 weeks after I hesitate to put up the last photo, up with a solution. Unfortunately, I he came to power vowing peace and but this one you have to put your could not. The law is very clear. She reconciliation. imagination to work. It takes a lot of not only would have been deported It also said that Alassane Quattara, imagination to see what is happening. from America, she would have been de- championed by the French and the There she is, the beautiful First Lady. ported back to Brazil, a place where United Nations during a deadly post- You can imagine what happened with the little girl had never lived or a lan- election conflict, has failed to condemn all of Ouattara’s people around here. guage she never mastered. She was sup- atrocities against real or perceived What is the answer? All we have to posed to wait there for 10 years and try supporters of ousted President Laurent do is encourage the State Department to get back in the United States. Gbagbo. to take a different stand and say: Let’s It struck me that was unfair. That is Those are the death squads of take the Gbagbos—the President and when I introduced the DREAM Act. Ouattara. This is a picture of them. the First Lady—and allow them to The idea behind the DREAM Act is to You can identify them. They are in have asylum. I already located a coun- give young children who are now in there killing people. We don’t know try in Sub-Saharan Africa willing to young adulthood a chance to become how many tens of thousands of people host them. That is all that needs to legal in America. I introduced the bill have been murdered in cold blood. Am- happen. 10 years ago and called it up several nesty International came out the other By the time we get back 9 days from times on the Senate floor in the last 10 day and criticized the U.N. mission for now after this recess, both of them will years. I think on every occasion we had ignoring pleas for help and failing to be dead if we do not do something. As a majority vote. The last time we had prevent the massacre in the town of we speak right now, they are being tor- 55 votes of 100 in the Senate, but the Duekoue. That is the town of Duekoue. tured. filibuster rule requires 60. It fell short See the charred bodies. People are say- There we have it. We have an oppor- of passing. ing they actually had hogs eating the tunity to do something. We can save What the bill says is very basic. The bodies. This is what Ouattara did in a not only these people but save those DREAM Act would give students a little town called Duekoue. around them who have always loved chance to become legal if they came to I have another picture of what is hap- peace in Cote d’Ivoire. the United States as children; they are pening. It is really criminal. These are I yield the floor. long-term residents of the United

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