Speech #980213581

I move to strike the requisite number of words. Mr. Chairman. this bill embraces conventional wisdom and that is probably dispositive of the future of the bill. and that is too bad because one increment of that conventional wisdom is that illegal aliens are choking our welfare rolls and that is not true. And another increment is that illegal aliens are filling up our jails and contributing massively to our crime rate. and that is not true. And another increment is that our schools are being overwhelmed by the children of these illegal aliens. and that is not true. What is kind of too bad is that it is not both conventional enough and wise enough to know that these people dare taking jobs that our fellow citizens do not want and they are accepting wages that our fellow citizens would not accept and that they are working in conditions that our fellow citizens would not tolerate. I wonder. have you ever wondered who these people were?