Speech #990278993

The replenishment provisions are not good public policy. and in effect. we have a rolling legalization program which will bring in more aliens. qualify them for citizenship and petitioning rights. even over and above the regular legalization provisions contained in the conference report. Finally. there is no 100 percent reimbursement to State and local governments for the expenses attendant to amnesty. I think that if we decide to change the policy relative to immigration. which is our prerogative under the Constitution. we ought to put out money where our mouth is and not saddle propertytax payers at the State and local level with literally hundreds of millions of dollars in additional education and welfare costs. Yet. this bill does precisely that. The sum and substance of the conference report is that once sanctions expire. we will have nothing to stop the magnet drawing illegal aliens across our border. At the same time. we will have legalized millions of people and given them petitioning rights. With permanent sanctions and no amnesty or delayed amnesty. as was contained in the bill from the other body. the jobs for the illegals will dry up. and the illegals will just find their way back home without massive deportation. This bill does just the opposite of that and will not bring about the result of protecting our borders. I think that the Congress will live to rue the day when this legislation passed.