Irish. Polish. and even a little Bohemian. and my children are all of that plus Norwegian. and I appreciate America as a melting pot. Our current immigration laws are broken and they must be fixed. Onequarter of all Federal prisoners are Illegal aliens. Forty percent of all births in Californias public hospitals are due to illegal aliens. In Los Angeles alone. 60 percent of all births in the county hospital are to women who are in this country illegally. In the last 12 years. the number of immigrants applying for Social Security income has increased by 580 percent. These facts signal an immigration crisis in America. This bill is a bipartisan. reasonable bill that addresses serious flaws in the current law. The legislation doubles the number of border patrol agents. streamlines rules and procedures for removing illegal aliens and makes it tougher for illegal immigrants to fraudulently obtain jobs and take those jobs away from our citizens who need them. Mr. Speaker. we must act quickly and decisively or the economic and social consequences for this country could be devastating.
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Illegal aliens are responsible for a quarter of all federal prisoners and are a drain on public resources.