Speech #1030006694

This has been a very lowkeyed debate so far. I think the people need to understand exactly what we are talking about this afternoon. President Clinton has indicated a policy or a change in policy that would allow immigrants to come into this country that are infected with the HIV virus. Let us make no mistake about it. Let us make it clear. We are talking about immigrants coming into the country with AIDS. I think we need to think about that. When I was in my own State this past week. I had this subject raised more than any other subject. more than homosexuals in the military. more than the proposal to cut Social Security benefits. more than the proposal to tax Social Security benefits. more than the proposals to raise taxes on everyone down to people making only $30.000 a year. People would say. "Have you all lost your minds?" First of all. most Americans think our immigration policy has gone askew. They wonder why we cannot control our borders. why do we have this flood of illegal aliens coming into the country. They also wonder why we have the flood of legal aliens that are coming into the country. They think that is out of control. So they wonder about the laws on the books. and what the administrationsand I say that because it should include previous administrations--what are we thinking in not being able to control the flood of immigrants coming into this country? We have the Statue of Liberty. We also have the policy of letting people come into the country.