Robert Bach. As I said. Miss Meissner happens to be the INS Commissioner. the Immigration and Naturalization Service Commissioner. Other things that have been said. the Urban Institute. which is known for doing extensive studies and did an extensive study for the administration recently to determine the effects of immigration and the numbers of Immigrants. found in its study that for every increase of 100 people in the native population. in the citizen population. employment grow by 26 Jobs. For every increase of 100 in the immigrant population. employment grow by 46 jobs. The Urban Institute further reports that immigrants actually complement native workers rather than substitute or displace native workers. That is important. because people say they are taking all our Jobs. Most studies find that that is not the case. Immigrants make it possible for industry to survive here in the United States. Without their manpower. many businesses would have no choice but to shut down or perhaps move overseas. Do immigrants. as I said before. really pay taxes? Of course. they do. A lot of analysis has been done on this particular subject as well. Let me show you a chart that quotes a report by the periodical Business Week back in 1992. As you can see. Business Week. in this report. cited the fact that immigrants. while they earn in this country about $240 billion and they pay taxes to the tune of about $90 billion. their use of welfare is about $5 billion. Again. that is consistent with what President Bushs Council of Economic Advisors found to be the case. and it is consistent with what we have found in the past history with immigrants. that they work very hard to produce. Madam Speaker. I yield to the gentleman from Texas.
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