Speech #1050041849

The CIA killing in 1993 is another. All of these acts were committed by people that were willingly let into this country. How many instances does it take like this before we have the common sense to change the immigration laws that we are letting wreck this country? I think we need to take a hard look at the laws and determine if we are letting people into this country that are prone to commit terrorist acts against the Nation once they get here. One of the basic problems. of course. with immigration is that we have a morethangenerous welfare systemmore than generous. People are coming into this country not to work. but to sit down. They are coming here to become part of our welfare system. not to become part of our work force. When we attempted to change our welfare laws and cut off cash assistance to noncitizens. the Congress got frightened. and we decided it was being too harsh not to give cash money to noncitizens. How cruel could we be not to hand out cash to an illegal noncitizen? We have perpetrated an immigration system that is out of control. Madam President. we know that there are many people who want to be Americans. Many people want to come here and make a contribution to the United States. We have a long history of immigration. We are all descendents of immigrants from somewhere at one time. except Native Americans. But somewhere we have gone wrong. At one point. people came to this country to work and to labor and be a part of it. But now they come to be a part of charity. I think we began to go wrong when we lost common sense in our immigration policies. Madam President. I think the problem began when we lost commonsense altogether in the Government. and particularly with the welfare programs supporting the things that these people were coming for. Why should we give noncitizens welfare? Why should the Federal Government punish a county or town if they dont print documents in languages other than English? Madam President. we do that.