Speech #940055069

To help these unemployed Americans we provide. through taxes. unemployment compensation. public service and public works jobs. food stamps. and welfare benefits. The vast majority of these Americans want to work. Much of the money for these benefits could have been saved if there were not so many of these illegal aliens holding down jobs here. There is no doubt that some of the jobs these illegal aliens hold are of the type that some Americans might not want. The majority. however. involve goodpaying jobs. For example. in 1972. the Immigration and Naturalization Service found that in Los Angeles. 50 percent of the illegal aliens worked in manufacturing plants. In San Francisco. one illegal alien from Canada was found to earning $9 per hour teaching in a junior college. These illegal aliens are causing a heavy strain on our economy. I am sure that some are contributing to the economy. But the load as a whole is what makes the heavy strain on the economy. In addition to holding jobs Americans could have. many of these aliens avoid paying taxes while others receive welfare and medical benefits. And. of course. they receive unemployment compensation benefits. Not long ago the Immigration and Naturalization Service sampled 1.700 illegal aliens and uncovered $250.000 in taxes that had been avoided by these aliens. According to the Immigration and Naturalization Service. tax is avoided through claims for fictitious dependents which reduces or eliminates the tax withheld. Also recently the Immigration and Naturalization Service received a bill from one county for medical services that had been rendered to illegal aliens in the past year in the amount of $7 million. These facts. Mr.