Speech #1030066287

I move to strike the requisite number of words. Let me just say that the minority leader and everybody else has made the case that we should not do anything to impede the progress of this bill. My view and I believe the view of the minority in this House is that every single piece of legislation that comes through here that will impact upon the illegal alien problem in this country should be tightened down. This bill is no exception. Let me give my colleagues some figures. and these are facts. In the Los Angeles riots. 1.084 participants were illegal aliens who were arrested. Many were sent back. 1.064 illegal aliens caused billions of dollars. They were not the only ones. but they caused billions of dollars in damage in Los Angeles. Twentytwo percent of the 800.000 prison population in this country. 176.000 inmates. are illegal aliens and it is costing an average of $30.000 a year to keep them incarcerated. That is $5.2 billion a year that we are paying to incarcerate illegal aliens. In Los Angeles County alone last year. there were 37.000 illegal alien babies born and it is costing $25 million a month in AFDC payments to deal with those children. and that does not include the health care costs to deliver those babies. And what is the Medical system in California doing? In Spanish they are passing out to illegal aliens brochures telling them that they will give them the hospital care services that they need to deliver their children. and they will not report them to the immigration authorities. so that they will not have to worry about being deported. They are encouraging people to come across the border to have their babies and it is costing $25 million a month for just the babies born in that one county last year alone. Now. according to a report that Just came out. I want to quote from this and I think every American will be interested in this: Costs of all immigrants in the next decade from 1993 to 2002. the total stock of post1970 immigrants to the United States will grow to 29.4 million. barring changes in existing law and enforcement policy. In that period. immigrants will create total public assistance and displacement costs of $951.7 billion. almost a trillion dollars. and pay taxes of only $283.2 billion. so the net cost to the public will be $668.5 billion in 1993 dollars. Mr. Chairman. we cannot afford that. The national debt is rising like a rocket. and. unless we tighten down legislation to stop illegal aliens from coming into this country and. yes. encouraging them to come into this country. we are going to bankrupt America. This is one of the leading problems we have. and. if my colleagues were to ask taxpayers across this country. I bet 80 percent of them would say. "Tighten down your laws to stop illegal immigration." Mr. Chairman. we do not want that. We want people who come here through the legal immigration programs to come to America. We have programs that deal with that. but illegal immigration must be stopped. and we can do it. and one of the ways we have to do it is to tighten down every single bill. yes. this bill as well. to make sure that we minimize illegal aliens from coming into this country.