For once it is good to be a member of the committee and be able to be recognized ahead of others who are waiting in line. Let me talk about something a little bit away from the amendment itself. and then I will come back to it in very succinct words. The majority leader stood up and said he would work in the direction that we need to stop illegal immigration with an immigration bill. and I would ask my colleagues to support that because I think that is the direction all of us want to go instead of attacking each and every one of the bills that come up with different items. The reason is that if we can stop and have the means of stopping illegal immigration into our country from whatever direction. then we would not have twothirds of our children in Los Angeles who are born to illegals going down and collecting AFDC. There will still be some. but that number will dwindle. And we will not have these same problems with the States not being funded to provide the schools. because those students will not end up in the schools because they are illegal and they are stopped at the border.
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Children of undocumented immigrants are a drain on public resources (AFDC, schools).