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The pregnancy rate for teenagers in school is 8 percent. compared with 41 percent for those who are out of school. The result is huge costs in emergency medical services. intensive care for babies born prematurely to teenage mothers. and welfare costs for the children. Every major study of illegal immigration reaches the same conclusion. The reason illegal immigrants come to the United States is for jobs. Jobs are the overwhelming magnet. They dont come so that their children can attend U.S. schools. That was the conclusion of the 1976 report of the Ford administrations Domestic Council Committee on Illegal Immigration. That was the conclusion of the 1981 report of Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy chaired by Father Theodore Hesburgh. That was the conclusion of the Bush administration survey of illegal immigrants in 1992. That was the conclusion of the Barbara Jordan commission in 1994. That was the conclusion this year of a study by the Center for Population Research at the National Institutes of Health. which concluded that "the estimated value -of welfare. medical. and educational benefits that migrants could expect to receive in the United States had no clear relationship to the likehood of migrating." Expelling children from school wont prevent illegal immigration. Some 80 percent of the children have brothers or sisters or parents who are legally in the United States or who may even be citizens. These families have roots here. and the Gallegly amendment wont make them leave.