Mr. Chairman. the House has an historic opportunity today to do something which really should have been done years ago. We did pass an immigration bill previously in 1984. unfortunately. the conference broke up over the administrations desire to impose a cap for reimbursement costs and for States like Florida. California. and others that would have been terrible. inappropriate thing to do. We have now been granted an additional chance to do the right thing for this country. Let me take a slightly different tack in the short period of time that I have. You have heard and will hear from all the other speakers what is right and what is wrong about this bill. But what is something that will very rarely be told is the truth about what it is costing America by having all these illegal aliens here not paying taxes. drawing Federal services. drawing State and local services which the taxpayers of America are paying for. The program of legalization. and it is not amnesty. nobody gets blanket amnesty. nobody has a magic wand waved over them. they have to apply. they have to qualify. they cannot be automatically excludable under the laws that exist even now. They must affirmatively come forward.
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