This amendment Is not well thought out. It is exactly the kind of amendment that I think is intended to make headlines. It is intended to say you are either for stopping illegal immigration or you are against it. and we are going to put it on the schools this time. or we will put it. as the majority leader pointed out in his earlier statements this afternoon. or we will put it on some agency who is providing assistance or help to the most impoverished and perhaps the least wealthy and the least able to take care of themselves in our society and America. So I suggest to all of my colleagues that you read the amendment. When you read the amendment. you will know the correct vote is "no." I know that there will be those that think they have got to worry about the headline back home. Remember what the majority leader said earlier this afternoon. the majority leader said if we want to deal with the immigration issue. let us deal with it through the Immigration Service. When was the last time a Member on the other side of the aisle. and I am pointing to the Republican Party in this case. came up with an amendment that increased the funding for the INS? I think that is a part of the problem. because they say. "Well. we are conservative. We do not want to spend money." They also do not want to go back and tell the voters it is going to cost more money. and the truth of the matter is if you are going to enforce the immigration policy in this country. it is going to cost money. It is not free.
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