Speech #990275340

This is an issue for all of us tonight of population and of politics. The poor and the disadvantaged and the unemployed who are here right now are going to be watching very closely each and every Members vote on the question of whether or not you want to cheapen and devalue what the worth of American citizenship ought to be all about. It is population control. as my good friend. the gentleman from Florida has mentioned. that when you give legal status to one who came here illegally. they are then eligible in 3 or 5 years thereafter for mother. brother. father. sister. spouse of each and offspring thereof. and the chain migration effect. the echo effect of that. as has been well described. amounts to between 70 and 100 million people. nearly a onethird increase on the population flood of this country. indeed. from an economic point of view. from a city. county. and State welfare and education point of view. a suffocating impact that we cannot afford. It sends the wrong signal. I think that the registry date which provides that anyone here prior to 1976 can get their amnesty is sufficient to go to conference.