Speech #960270701

I will tell you how lar our Government. both Republican and Democratic administrations. has gone for a long time. how far they have missed this problem. They have not even identified it. In our immigration laws. we have provisions for student visas. for tourists. for immigrants. We have a category of people known as permanent residents. All this is well and good. We have refugees who are fleeing from the tyrants. We have also asylum seekers who can show that they are going to have their heads cut off if they do not get out of the country rather quickly. but do you know what we do not have? There is no provision for the illegals. so when they come into California or Florida. and how many came into Florida? As of this morning at 7 oclock. 115.189 have come in since April. as of this morning at 7 oclock. They are not refugees. so our refugee programs do not take care of them. They are not asylum seekers. They are not students. They are not tourists. They are not immigrants. What are they? They are nothing in the law. They are illegal immigrants. and as a result we have no program for them. I will tell you who pays the bill. Uncle Sam welcomes them with open arms. but who pays the bill? The local taxpayer. tho taxpayer in your county. sir. the taxpayer in your county. maam. the taxpayer in my county. they are the ones who pay the bill. Some people have told me that. well. these illegals from Florida do not get to California. that California gets the ones from Vietnam and. we do. incidentally. We have about 65 percent of all Southeast Asian refugees in southern California: but what happened to the ones coming in from Cuba? As of Thursday morning. last Thursday. 2.536 of them had applied for welfare in Los Angeles County. from which I would gather that at least double that number. more than 5.000. are presently in California.