Now. it is true. as Senator SIMPsoN has said. that the majority of people who are here Illegally came in legally. But we have to add that this amendment will do nothing on that. These are people who came in on visitors visas. or student visas. This amendment does not address that. A second thing has to be added that somehow has escaped so far this morning. and that is. the majority of the people who come in as Immigrants to our society are great assets to our society. Illinois is one of the States that has major numbers in immigration. But a smaller percentage of those who come into our country legally are on various Government programs. such as welfare. than nativeborn Americans. with the exception of SSI. That is an exception. And there are some problems we ought to deal with. There are problems we ought to deal with in illegal immigration. But not on this particular bill. Let me also address the question of the numbers. There is some conflict. apparently. in the numbers that are going around. I think. in part. it is because the Immigration Serviceand I have found them to be very solid in what they have to sayare projecting what is going to happen. And there is a bubble because we have this amnesty period. And so there is going to be a period in which the numbers go up. and then they will go back down.
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