I have a real hard time with it. But as was discussed a minute ago. Governor Wilson has asked for $3.7 billion because of the illegal immigration impact. It is a Federal mandate. We mandate on the States that they pay for it. just like we are trying to legislate that we mandate a payment to cover the cost of this paperwork. The problem is. $3.7 billion a year. if we can stop illegal immigration. we do not have to worry about doing it here in the field of education. We can take $3.7 billion and apply it to those areas into education and law enforcement and the rest of it by stopping it at the border. I think that is the real area that we need to take a look at. I want to stop all illegal immigration coming in. whether it is the Chinese boat people. whether it is the Irish. wnich I am a member of. or whether it is across the border of Mexico. The only way to do that. I think. is to stop totally those services. but that should not rest in the education field. However. all the other areas. law enforcement. where we have. as the gentleman from Indiana said. about 25 percent. it is actually about 132 percent of our felons are illegal aliens. but we do not fund that. We know that number. It is a hard number.
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Generalization that a large percentage of felons are illegal aliens.