Amnesty could set off a U.S. population explosion. and there are a number of my colleagues and I that are concerned about this. It is a bipartisan kind of thing. I am working now with the gentleman from New York and the gentleman from New Jersey and we have a "Dear Colleague" letter out that indicates our interest in looking at the chain migration problem that results from the legalization to the citizenship window. and then anywhere between 50 and 70 million additional persons that will legally be entitled to come in once the legal alien status is legalized. and that function of those numbers is so suffocating. and so staggering as the consequence of trying to be appropriate in addressing the concerns we have for those that are already here without legal status that we simply open Pandoras box. And we have made a very difficult situation even worse. There may be as many as 12 to 16 million illegal aliens today in the United States. Once they are citizens. and again I quote from the article by John Dillon. they could legally bring in millions of their relatives unless some kind of guards are put into the legislation with respect to brothers. sisters. mothers. fathers. spouses of each and their offspring. If you run the multiplication factor. you get to those 50 to 70 million people figures just in a 15year period once we would grant blanket amnesty. Another point that I am trying to make with respect to amnesty is that it could lead to resource problems in the Southwest. Most new immigrants would be expected to settle in California and other Western States. Water shortages indeed would become a problem and other kinds of elements like that. The next point I make is that amnesty takes pressure off other nations to solve their own problems.
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