Speech #1030136249

You are going to hurt the children. You are going to hurt these poor people." That is insane. The taxpayers who are paying the bill in this country ought to have some accountability from this Congress. and that means when illegal aliens come into this country. we ought to know how many of them there are. We ought to know where they are. We ought to know what benefits they are getting. and we ought to send them back where they came from. unless they are legally in this country. Lot me give my colleagues some other statistical data. Illegal aliens constitute one out of four people that are inmates in our Federal prisons. Each one of those inmates costs about $85.000 a year that the taxpayers have to pay for. onefourth of our prison population. but we cannot deal with that. We ought to talk to them about that. . There were 1.064 illegal aliens in the Los Angeles riots that did billions of dollars worth of damage. Those were not American citizens. They were illegal aliens breaking into those stores. carrying out television sets and everything else. 1.064 of them. Twothirds of the births in Los Angeles County last year or 37.000 births were illegal alien births. and the AFDC payments per month is $26 million just to take care of those children and take care of their families. That did not include other forms of health care. education. or anything else. Yet we cannot get at the problem. because the liberals say we cannot do that. If we look at every single bill that came before this body. the immigration bill. everything else. there is always a reason to say no. we cannot do that. I say we ought to be accountable to the U.S. taxpayer that is footing the bill. These people are not American citizens. If they wanted to come through the normal immigration process. fine. But when they come into this country illegally. we have no obligation to take care of their health. their welfare. or their education. Yet we cannot talk to these Members.