Mr. Speaker. are my colleagues tired of hearing about thousands of felons being naturalized as American citizens by an agency out of control? Are my colleagues tired of having lost control of our borders? Are they tired of a bureaucracy that allows millions of illegal aliens simply because they overstayed while on a legal visa? Mr. Speaker. today I am introducing legislation to overhaul and dramatically improve the Nations immigration system. The bill would enact the reforms proposed by the bipartisan Commission on Immigration Reform. headed by the late Barbara Jordan. These reforms. received by Congress last year. are based on the most comprehensive bipartisan study of our immigration system to date and they offer a commonsense approach to fixing a system that is broken. failing the citizens it is supposed to protect and the immigrants it is supposed to serve. Since 1984. the Congress has increased the budget of the INS by over 600 percent. yet illegal immigration is at an alltime high and service for illegal immigrants is at an alltime low. Money is no longer an excuse. By implementing these changes. we can end the 3year backlogs in benefits processing. end the granting of citizenship to criminals and other undeserving individuals. and end the mismanagement of our entire immigration system.
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Generalizing that illegal immigrants are criminals and undeserving of citizenship.