Illinois. California. or Texas. Those latter two States obviously have large numbers of illegal aliens. Talk it over with your constituents and you will find. first of all. no tolerance toward Illegal aliens. Let us start at another point: You are not going to find tolerance for people who violate the law. Since illegal aliens are in violation of our law. you are going to find little tolerance for their presence. Should the presence of illegal aliens have a negative. detrimental impact upon the representative process of our country? The answer to that. obviously. is no. We are talking about hundreds of thousands of people who are coming here illegally. That is quite a distortion of representative government. particularly in those States where a high percentage of the illegal aliens reside. I do not question the sincerity of the Senator from Illinois who says this should not be offered as an amendment to this bill. He says it ought to be studied by Senator BINGAMANS committee. But this was an issue when I was in the House of Representatives. when the Senator from Illinois was also a Member of the House. in the late 1970s. when we were getting ready for the 1980 election. Obviously. it was not passed and illegal aliens were counted. And so it is an issue today. Well. if we really had wanted to do this through the process of committee hearings and study. there were 8 to 9 years to do so.
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General intolerance towards illegal aliens and those who violate the law.