Speech #920283026

A few months ago the Congress appropriated $1 billion for Public Service Employment. which is supposed to create 173.000 jobs. About 10 percent-$100 millionwas allocated to Californiaor. about 17.300 jobs for our State. More than 90.000 of the illegal aliens .picked up this past year were in California. Obviously. it would seem. these aliens were holding more jobs than we are creating with the Public Service Employment Act. In other words. effective legislation that would prevent illegal aliens from taking jobs from citizens and legally admitted permanent residents would be more valuable in California than the Public Service Employment Act. Nationwide. there are roughly 5 million unemployed. A conservative estimate of 500.000 illegal aliens holding Jobs in this country would indicate that unemployment rates could be cut by 10 percent if illegals were effectively prevented from going to work here. I might also mention that there are approximately 350.000 unemployed veterans of the Vietnam war. We can safely say that there are more illegal aliens working in this country than there are unemployed Vietnam vets. These figures must necessarily be estimates. We know how many aliens are apprehended. but we do not know how many are not discovered. Estimates of the number of illegal aliens actually in the United States run between 1 to 10 million. With more than 420.000 deportable aliens located in the United States in fiscal 1971. it is hard to believe that the figure is not at least more than 2 million. This allows for four escaping detection for each one that is located. Most of the aliens located are not officially deportedan action which would make them subject to imprisonment if they were located in the United States subsequently. Only 16.893. less than 5 percent. of the 345.353 located in fiscal 1970 were deported. There were another 303.348 who were "required to depart" from the United States..That means they are loaded on a bus and taken to the border or otherwise ordered to leave. Many of them return almost immediately and many employers rehire the same aliens who have been apprehended a few days earlier while in their employ. An anecdote to Illustrate this can best be given by quoting from a letter I received several weeks ago from the Los Angeles Immigration office as a result of a complaint about illegal aliens working in a small restaurant which I forwarded to them. The letter reads. in part: Investigators apprehended three aliens illegally in the United States in their employment at the cafe. Two other aliens. also illegally in the United States and also employed by the same cafe. were apprehended at a nearby motel.