Speech #960244212

Unemployment rates are high and American families should not be deprived of breadwinners in gainful employment because of the competition of millions of illegals. We get it both waysas taxpayers paying benefits to them and as working Americans watching jobs go to those who are not even legal aliens let alone citizens. I believe that our immigration policies should be completely overhauled. We cannot allow illegal aliens to overrun this country and we do not owe them billions of dollars of your social security money. food stamps. welfare. scarce local school education funds and other taxpayer services. It is bad enough trying to run a welfare state in the United States of America. But trying to extend it to the whole world will bankrupt us all. The immigration problem is complicated by two other factors which make our immigration policies somewhat of a fraud. Because of the political clout and agitation of the Hispanics. this administration has literally allowed millions of illegal aliens to swarm into our country from Mexico. The Department of Labor has even tried to create a classification of law which is not to be found anywhere on our law books. The Carter administration. in direct violation of the law. has stopped calling these millions of Mexicans "illegal aliens" and is now calling them "undocumented workers" as if they were Americans who had simply forgotten to provide a proper form for employment. Any room we might have had for legitimate refugees from tyranny is now packed and overflowing with economic opportunists pouring in from Mexico at the urging of the administration and liberal politicians. What a paradox. As liberal foreign policy increases the number of truly persecuted people. the liberal immigration policy. directed by politically motivated people from Washington. has filled and overfilled any possible room for them we might have had in this country. Second. many of my liberal friends refer to the timehonored tradition in the 1800s and early 1900s of allowing aliens to freely come to our shores. Yes. this was a tradition but I doubt that many of them would want to go back to what the tradition was. When the aliens. who were our forefathers. came to these shnpe they were not met by Federal workers placing a social security card into their hands so they could draw money immediately. go on the welfare rolls or get on the Federal gravy train. No. our forefathers who came to our shores when we had open immigration policies. were met with a country of opportunity. hard work. and little or no government assistance.