Mr. President. I feel that we also need to do more spadework on immigration reform itself. I feel strongly that deportation proceedings should be expedited. I also feel that there needs to be greater enforcement in those many cases where holders of temporary visas intentionally overstay their visas. And I feel that there needs to be stricter enforcement of the sponsor affidavits. aimed at ensuring that immigrants will not be a burden on the taxpayers. Efforts to provide better border patrol and to attack asylum abuse are also needed. The President has made tough. new proposals in this regard. and I also applied the results of the Immigration and Naturalization Services Operation Hold the Line at El Paso. The passage of a welfare reform bill this year is the perfect opportunity to take a step back to look at what has gone wrong in the past and to stop the robbery of the American taxpayers by illegal aliens. America has a rich history of diversity. Most of our forebears came from abroad. but I do not know how anyone can justify payment of Federal benefits to illegal aliens. So I put my colleagues on notice. I Intend to pursue this matter to the end beginning anew on this years welfare reform bill.
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