Speech #1040201734

You asked how we could be precluded from dealing with things that are very important to Senator KENNEDY or to Senator DOROAN. The same would be my argument. I am being precluded from dealing with illegal immigration reform. And I think that we want to keep all those Interesting balances before the body. That is a very important thing. I wish to insert In the RECORD a very interesting column that was In the Washington Post in the Outlook section last Sunday about this extraordinary argument about the minimum wage and the extraordinary. remarkable flight from common sense of those who will not allow us to reduce the number of those people presently entering under the preference system. We have a situation now with regard to naturalization. with regard to a movement toward naturalization created by the legalization of the 1986 bill. created by people who are stunned and alarmed by ptopostion 187 and think. boy. if they are going to treat people who are permanent resident aliens like that. I want to get naturalized. There is another movement toward that. and so you are going to have more numbers coming to the United States than you ever did before. even if we did the minimum under the "legal immigration bill." And remember. there is a legal immigration bill at the desk which passed the committee by a vote of 13 to 4. That is legal immigration. There is also the illegal immigration bill. which passed the committee by a vote of 13 to 4. and that is what we are considering at the present time. Let me assure you that if you are talking about germane and nongermane. there should be not much question. at least in the eyes of the general American public. of a certain thing which is total reality. which is sometimes difficult to attain here. that the reason we talk about them togetherwhether you split them or puree them is not the issuesplit. whole or pureed. you do not escape the fact that over one half of the people who come here legally become the illegal aliens which are the subject of this bill. Please hear that. I hope. and know that we are talking about people who come here. half of them who come here legally become illegal. They then go out of status with a tourist visa. They go out of status with a student visa. They then become part of the illegal community. So those are some things. and we are not here to disrupt things but we are here to deal with the bill as we do health care. we do lineitem veto. we do this and we do that. and try and proceed.