Speech #1030136360

Mr. Chairman. this has been a very valuable debate today. I am sorry that every time we discuss an issue that I believe is really important to our countryand I know the people who are watching on CSPAN and reading the trying to get control of the flow of illegal aliens in to our country is vital to the wellbeing of themselves and their families. As far as these people are concerned. they are not racists. I am sorry that every time we discuss this we have to be basically called a bunch of names and implied we are the same as the Nazis and everything like that. The American people have a good spirit. and they are very generous people. They do not mind helping. We provide basically a generous. a very generous immigration law so that people can come here legally from all countries of the world. from all races. And I think it is a wonderful thing. And I voted for the last immigration bill. which was a very generous immigration bill. But the idea that they do not want the millions of people who are coming here illegally to receive the same benefits and thus encouraging even more people to come here and dilute those funds. and that makes them some kind of Nazis or Fascists. this is a disservice to the American people and it is a disservice to the debate on this vital issue. I believe people of good will can disagree on things like this. and they should disagree in good will and realize that you can talk about a problem that concerns us. that deals with legalitywe have heard it constantly said. we have been told that the Supreme Court said that we have to fund education for illegal aliens. The Supreme Court does not say that we cannot count illegal aliens to find out how many illegal aliens are in our schools so we can figure out the cost. The Supreme Court does not say that. What I need to askwhen people are up there talking about basically implying that we are a bunch of Nazis and Fascists. we are trying to get control of the illegal alien situation. does that mean that no immigration laws are going to be enforced? Is that what you want? Does that mean. for example. that all children of illegal aliens. illegal immigrant children who come here. that they should not be deported with their families? Is that what we are saying. that the immigration law is right out the window? And if you believe in enforcing them. you are some kind of a Nazi? That is obviously not going to help the situation get any better. By the way. we are making immigration policy here. When we say we are going to provide a benefit package for people who come here from another country illegally and they are going to got so much money. we are giving them an incentive to come here. that is immigration policy because we are giving them the incentive to come here. It is not a hard thing to understand that concept and who we are supposed to be representing. This amendment. by the way. just to note for the last gentleman who talked. we did try to authorize the funds that were necessary to implement this. as I repeat again. inconsequential. minimum funds.