Speech #930291427

Wubbena. Jr.. and he has just returned to his assignment in the Pentagon following his internship in my office. Colonel Wubbena did some excellent research work for me. particularly on the pressing question of illegal aliens. Just prior to the completion of his tour in my office. I asked him to summarize his thoughts on the matter to me in brief written form. Since Colonel Wubbena displayed such an excellent perception of this critical problem. I would like to share his thoughts with my colleagues. Following is his summary: The followig paragraphs constitute a summary of my review of the illegal alien problem which you directed as my primary internship project. If we do not act soon. the problem of illegal alien traffic will reach overwhelming proportions. Those of us from border areas are more sensitive to the issue than most other Americans and feel overwhelmed already. But the difficulties have grown beyond border districts. they now affect all sections of the Nation. No matter where you live. available statistics indicate that very possibly somewhere nearby an illegal alien either occupies a job perhaps needed by a citizen. or receives welfare from our tax dollars. The plight of the illegal alien is often heart rendering. He is here because his own country cannot sustain him. The attraction is quite clear to a Mexican peon. for example. who can earn in the United States in one day more than a weeks wages if at home (if a job were available). He will leave his family. suffer all sorts of privations and indignities to reach the U.S.-to exist in squalor. work for terribly low wages. and live in fear of arrest (often aggravated by an occasional unscrupulous employer who threatens in order to retain the alien in a form of bondage)-all for the promise of survival. The vast majority of these illegal aliens are good people. only a very few are not. It is natural to sympathize. then. with their situation and motivation. The fact remains that they are here and should not be.