Speech #1090108532

Mr. Speaker. there was a very subtle illegal guestworker plan stuck in the budget the administration just submitted to Congress. That budget calls for the United States to allow over one million new illegal immigrants to infiltrate our borders during 2007. As a matter of fact. last years budget is allowing one million illegal aliens to enter this year as well. That is how many immigrants enter our country illegally each year under our current enforcement plans. We know it will happen because it happens every year under current enforcement policy. and we are going right ahead with the same old plan. knowing in advance that it will be a near total failure. We continue talking about how we are adding 1.500 new border agents in 2007. That wont be in the field until 2009. letting another two million illegal aliens to walk across our border. We talk about how we are adding technology and fencing. but that wont be ready until 2010. allowing another million illegals in our country. Right now. with our current budget and reform plans. we are. by default. agreeing to allow an additional four million illegal aliens into our country. That is equivalent to the population of South Carolina or Oregon. Think about that. We are being asked to add a 51st state populated entirely by lowincome illegal aliens. Mr. Speaker. I cannot find an excuse for this. We know right now how to bring this flood of illegal immigration to a virtual halt. and I think within the next 2 weeks. We need somewhere between 36 and 48.000 troops immediately deployed to the southern border. Now. the Minuteman Project in April showed that with between 18 and 24 additional enforcement personnel per mile. we can effectively secure our border for the first time. And it was not just the Minuteman Project that revealed these statistics. The U.S. Border Patrol conducted similar demonstration projects in 1993. Operation Blockade in El Paso and Operation Gatekeeper in San Diego produced the identical same results. We have a good idea on how much a deployment like this would cost. $2.5 billion a year. But. you know what? That is less than 4 percent of the minimum $70 billion a year we are currently spending covering the health care. education and the different costs for illegal immigrants. We already know how long it would take to get these troops on line and end this nightmaxe. One week.