Speech #1040009371

Well. if there are. lets talk most heavily affected. but in every about them and lets do them. But lets place in this country. are rightly disnot go back on the things that we did turbed by the large numbers of illegal last year that we know work. that we aliens entering our country. The jobs know work because the local law en- they hold might otherwise be held by forcement officers tell us that we did citizens or legal immigrants. The pubthe right thing. because local commu- lie service they use impose burdens on nity leaders who have worked for years our taxpayers. and years to lower the crime rate tell That is why our administration has us that they work. moved aggressively to secure our borLets look at the experience of our ders more by hiring a record number of cities and our rural areas where the new border guards. by deporting twice crime rate has gone down and ask the as many criminal aliens as ever before. people who did it how they did it. And by cracking down on illegal hiring. and if what we did last year supports the by barring welfare benefits to illegal decline in the crime rate. and I am con- aliens. vinced that it does. lets not go back on In the budget I will present to you. it. Lets stick with it. implement it. we will try to do more to speed the deWe have got four more hard years of portation of illegal aliens who are arwork to do to do that. rested for crimes. to better identify ilI dont want to destroy the good at- legal aliens in the workplace as recmosphere in the room or in the country ommended by the commission headed tonight. but I have to mention one by former Congresswoman Barbara issue that divided this body greatly Jordan. last year. The last Congress also passed We are a nation of immigrants. but the Brady Bill. and in the crime bill we are also a nation of laws. It is wrong the ban on 19 assault weapons. I dont and ultimately selfdefeating for a nathink it is a secret to anybody in this tion of immigrants to permit the kind room that several members of the last of abuse of our immigration laws we Congress who voted for that arent here have seen in recent years. and we must tonight because they voted for it. And do more to stop it. I know. therefore. that some of you The most important job of our govwho are here because they voted for it ernment in this new era is to empower are under enormous pressure to repeal the American people to succeed in the it. global economy.