Mr. Speaker. later today. or possibly tomorrow. we will take up a package of two amendments offered by the gentleman from California dealing with illegal aliens and with using the school systems to identify them in order to deny funding for the education of these children. I realize the frustration many of us feel as we see a situation in which we do not have control of our borders. There are many people who are ir our country illegally who are consuming social welfare programs. educational programs. and health care programs. all to the d) ainution of the available funds for our own citizens and residents. I hope. however. that our colleague will not accept those amendments and will join with me and other members of my Subcommittee on International Law and Immigration in trying to fashion a bill that will keep people out of this country who are seeking to enter illegally and to reform. as I hope we will. the asylum laws to make sure people do not play games or abuse the system. to improve the Border Patrol so people are apprehended as they enter the country. and to have employer sanctions strengthened with more teeth so that the Job lure is turned off which lures people. in some cases. across the border into the United States. Again I realize the frustration and torment that many of my colleagues are feeling. but I hope they can hold off on that and not accept the gentlemans amendments and try to support us in our efforts to make the system better by keeping the people without documents out of the country in the first place.
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