Speech #990274868

That Is the question of amnesty. 20 minutes are provided under the Lungren amendment. 10 minutes on a side. Within 3 to 5 years each alien who has been given amnesty will be eligible for citizenship. At that point in time under the legal immigration rules in tI 2 country every mother. father. sister. spouse of each and offspring thereof will be eligible for immigration into this country. That has been referred to in a number of articles by a number of scholars as the impacting problem of chain migration. Michael Teitelbaum has referred to it as the "echo effect." The echo effect. the chain migration. the function of taking 10 million of those undocumented persons who are in this country. 65 percent of whom will come forward when a legalization program is offered. and then allow them to get their green card. then to become a citizen. then to bring in all of their other relatives. puts an explosion into the population control problem we face in this country of somewhere between 30 and 70 million new citizens within a 10year period of time If this bill becomes law. I think that costs of that to local governments will be severe and strain them indeed for education. for welfare and for other benefits that those folks would need. I think that because our economy is moving through such a rapid technological change. we are going to have to require greater amounts of education. and we cannot get that done.