Speech #1030136249

This is not a large additional cost. Yet they are using this. in my view. as a red herring to stop finding out what the real problem is. In 1992 we spent $13.2 billion on primary and secondary education for illegal aliens. In 1992. the estimated cost for illegal immigrants. for the period 1992 to 2002. will be $221.5 billion. Yet every single time we come to this floor to try to get a handle on the illegal immigration problem. the liberal mentality says we cannot do that. Yet people across this country are concerned about their tax dollars being used wisely. They are concerned about the national debt. And yet one of the biggest expenditures we have that is adding to this deficit is taking care of illegal aliens coming across this border for health care purposes. educational purposes. and social purposes. We will not even address the problem. because the liberals in this body continue to say. "Oh. my gosh. we cannot do that." Let me give my colleagues some statistics that we will not address in this body. There are 2.3 million illegal aliens coming across the MexicanAmerican border alone every year. and about 1 million go back. That means we are getting 1.3 million new illegal aliens in this country that we are taking care of every single year with American taxpayers dollars. They are not paying taxes. They come in to get phony Social Security cards. phony drivers licenses so they do not have to do that.