Speech #930208290

That is a pretty substantial number of people who were here properly in this country. and we permit them to come here for many things other than to come here to be residents. So I want to be sure the Senator knows exactly what he is doing. because a substantial number of those people are in his own State of Texas. who are lawfully in this country. who are not here as permanent residents. and the only people who would be excluded from this provision are people who are here as permanent residents. I may say the Immigration people themselves say there is some question in their minds as to the propriety of the language in this particular case. I have no particular brief with it. but I know last year there were 4.633.457 registered aliens in this country. Those people were here in this country lawfully. but by this amendment the Senator is going to preclude many of those people from participating in the elective process by making contributions. and he is also going to impose on the candidate the question of whether he knew or ought to have known that those people were not properly admitted here for permanent residence at the time they made contributions to his campaign.