Speech #1040269082

I am going to furnish this over to my colleagues in California. But let me just say. as a person who is not from a border State. I am concerned about the illegal aliens that are coming into this country. We are getting as many as a million or a million plus a year coming across our borders. Twentysix percent of the Federal prison populations are illegal aliens. and each one of those people costs the taxpayers of this country S25- to $35.000 a year. We are spending billions and billions and billions of your tax dollars. Americans tax dollars. just to take care of illegal aliens. My good friend. the gentleman from California. ELTON GALLEGLY. came up with an immigration reform bill that will solve a lot of those problems. There was one provision in there which said that. I think after July of next year. any new illegal alien coming into the country whose child they put into school. will not be able to go into school. But up until next year any illegal aliens child who is in a school will still be able to get their education through the 12th grade. The President said. hey. I cannot swallow that because I want these kids to continue to come in as illegal aliens. even after next July. to still be able to go to school at taxpayers expense. even though they do not pay taxes. to get an education. So ELTON GALLEGLY agreed to take that provision out of the bill so we could get an immigration reform bill passed that would help protect Americans and stop the massive flow of illegal aliens coming into this country that is costing billions of dollars. What did Bill Clinton do? He said. if they took out that amendment that I just talked about. he would not object to the bill.