Mr. Chairman. is that it cuts off all sorts of welfare. Medicare and Medicaid benefits to illegal immigrants. Coming here legally to seek opportunity is one thing and can still be done by hundreds of thousands under this bill every year. But coming here illegally to gain welfare benefits is something else altogether and something which the American people want stopped. We are a nation of immigrants. but much more importantly we are a nation of laws. To immigrate here illegally is plain and simply wrong. One last point. Mr. Chairman: If this bill passes to make our immigration policy more fair and reasonable. we will still be allowing more immigrants in. We will still have more immigration than any other nation in this world. If allowing in the highest number of immigrants of any country in the world is not good enough. then nothing we can do will ever really satisfy the people who oppose this legislation. Mr. Chairman.
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Illegal immigrants come to the US to gain welfare benefits.