Speech #1030066272

It just recently came out. You talk about bogeymen. Let me Just say that out of the 19.3 million immigrants settling here since 1970. legally and/or illegally. generated a total net public assistance cost in 1992 of $42.5 billion in excess of the $20 billion that they paid in taxes. Now. if you break that down. according to Dr. Huddle. legal immigrants cost aboutincluding legal immigrants. refugees. and asylumeesproduced over $25 billion in public assistance and displacement costs in Just 1992 above and beyond their tax payments of $15.3 billion. Illegal aliens. of which there are 4.8 million illegal aliens. settled here as of 1992. they carried out public assistance and displacement costs of almost $12 billion net of taxes that they paid. And the amnesty aliens that. the gentleman from California was talking about. as a result of this wonderful immigration bill that everybody wants to wait for. sort of like the one we passed a few years back which did nothing but gave amnesty to illegal aliens. 2.5 million formerly illegal aliens amnestied since 1986. utilized services and assistance costing $5 billion net of taxes. above the $2 billion that they paid. This has become an incredible burden. Now. Dr. Huddle also points out that if we do not do anything. if we do not amend this bill and many other bills that provide taxpayer services. we could have a net cost to the public of $668.5 billion in 1993 dollars. or an average of $67 billion a year. if we do not do something about it by the year 2002. What we are saying is you can provide all these services. you can do things for legal immigrants or citizens of this country. but we have to stop services and tax dollars going to illegal aliens. The problem of illegal immigration has grown to such unbelievable proportions. How long can we keep this up? More importantly. how long can we continue to ask American citizens to give their hardearned dollars to support people who blatantly disregard and break our laws?