Mr. Speaker. our legal immigration system is broken and needs to be fixed. It forces husbands and wives and their children to wait up to 10 years to Join each other in the United States. Also. the number of legal immigrants applying for supplemental security income has increased 580 percent over the last 12 years. That costs hardworking taxpayers 4 billion a year. And our broken legal immigration system drives the crisis in illegal immigration. Over 40 percent of all illegal aliens arrived as legal immigrants but overstayed their temporary visas. To fix these problems. the Immigration in the National Interest Act. H.R. 2202. substantially reduces the waiting time for families to be reunited. It also encourages legal immigrants to be selfreliant and discourages them from becoming a burden to the American taxpayer. Help fix a broken immigration system and support the Immigration in the National Interest Act.
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