Mr. Chairman. I just emphasize that the studies are clear that legal immigrants net out a positive economic contribution. not a negative one. And the suggestion that legal immigrants burden their communities more than Americans who are already here is a fallacious one. It is no more sensible to appropriate extra money for immigrants than to appropriate extra money because there is a higher birth rate in a particular part of the State or of the United States or in another part of the country. The fact is that this kind of proposal would suggest that immigrants are costing money when they are in fact contributing to our economy. And especially when we do not have the money to fund the budget we already have. let us not ask the taxpayers for $2.5 billion more money. which is what this amendment does.
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