Speech #980137167

Second. we are seeing a growing irresponsibility in this city because the entire liberal welfare state is now adopting the position that you cannot do anything serious until after the 1984 elections. that the American people are too immature. too cowardly. too ignorant. too greedy to be told the truth and that. therefore. the wise men and women who have made the mess we are in are going to hide and avoid any real change until after the elections so that they can come back and try to manipulate the country without being bothered by all those people out there. In addition to the irresponsibility over time. whether that time is 1985 or in the next generation. we saw today and I think the gentleman from Pennsylvania deserves particular applause and particular support from us and his staff deserves great credit because from the people I have talked with on the floor. the gentleman clearly best understood this and brought it to the attention of the rest of us. We saw today this House pass a $30 million education program at a time when the Speaker of this House has blocked the immigration bill. Let me explain what this means. On the average day in America today. four illegal aliens enter the country succEssfully every minute. that is. every minute that we have been talking. four more illegal aliens enter the country. Now. America has always been a land of immigration. I happen to be from a German. English. Irish. and Scottish background. All of us are immigrants in one way or another. But the reality is that we now have a flood of people fleeing the military disruption of places like El Salvador and Vietnam. fleeing the economic disruptions in places like India and Mexico. and we have no ability in America to decide who is a citizen and who is not. We hire more and more border guards. but the reality is that we are not going to become an armed camp.