Speech #1040267543

Members need to understand. any student enrolled in this school year is grandfathered until they graduate from high school. So there is not a question about kicking anybody out. There are two core questions here: The first is. prospectively for the future. should we be saying across the planet. come to America illegally and you are guaranteed the taxpayers will provide the social services at the expense of legal immigration and at the expense of children of Americans? That is what is happening. What is happening today in California is that 51.000 teachers are being used up by an unfunded Federal mandate. We are taking teachers. classrooms and computers away from legal immigrants in California and away from the children of Americans and we are transferring it to people from families that are here illegally. We lock in everybody to make sure that nobody has any question. The child in school during this school year is grandfathered until they graduate from high school. But we say for the future to the world. do not come to America illegally and expect that you are going to have the taxpayers of America. the legal immigrants and those who are American citizens. pay for social services other than emergency Federal care. This Congress began in 1995 by saying we would not pass unfunded mandates. That is what this is. This is a- $4.5 billion a year unfunded mandate on the children of America who have to share resources because the Federal Government has failed to do its job of stopping illegal immigration. Let me make a second point to my friends from Texas who have been speaking. Nothing in this bill requires the State of Texas to do anything. If the State of Texas wants to pay to educate illegal immigrants. that is the right of the State of Texas. But how can any Member walk on this floor. deny the citizens of California the right to implement proposition 187. without expecting California to come right back here and ask for $3 billion from the Federal Government annually to pay California for the cost of a Federal failure? Any Member who votes no on this bill should be prepared to go back home and tell their taxpayers that they are prepared to send California $3 billion a year to pay for what the Federal Government has failed to do. I think it is just wrong to say to the taxpayers and the citizens of California and to the legal immigrants who go to California. we are going to at the Federal level require you to ignore your own proposition 187. we are going to require you to ignore the vote of 60 percent of your citizens and we are going to make you pay out of the money that ought to go to your children. while we in Washington both fail to protect the border and fail to provide the money. This is an important bill. it is a good bill. It is a fair bill.