Speech #1090112600

In between those two extremes are all kinds of solutions. There are the 77 million nonworking Americans and there are ways to recruit them and to motivate them. We can have bigger families and we can use more technology and open up illegal immigration. But the rule of law must be maintained. and it must be restored if we are going to have respect for the laws in this country. A question that is never asked. or seldom asked and never answered by the proponents of open borders. Mr. Speaker. is the question: Is there such a thing as too much immigration? That is the number one most obvious question of all. If you are going to enter into this discussion and this debate and you are going to seek to establish an immigration policy and be a part of that debate and put your vote up. you ought to have an opinion on whether there is such a thing as too much immigration. Some will.go off on tangents and not answer that question. If you pull them back from their tangents and just insist. is there such a thing as too much immigration. in the end they have to admit that if there isnt such a thing. then they have to argue. well. okay. we can have 6 billion people here in the United States. Everyone wants to come to America. for good reason. So if there is not such a thing as too much immigration into the United States. legal or illegal. then everybody in the world might well want to come here. and 6 billion people living in these 50 States of America and depopulating the rest of the world. I do not think that is the formula we want to look at. So someplace between this 283 million that we have and the 6 billion that are out there to be recruited might be the right kind of number. Maybe the number is even perhaps less than the 283 million. I dont think so. but it should be part of our discussion. So there is such a thing as too much immigration. We can establish that clearly. unless they are willing to take the position that 6 billion people would be an appropriate number for Americans. So if there is such a thing as too much immigration. then the next question is. well. how much is too much? And what are the reasons by which we would come to a conclusion? I would argue. Mr. Speaker. that we need to bring people into this country who can assimilate into this society. who can contribute to this economy. and people who hopefully have an education and perhaps some capital. We need to look at the industries that are there and have these debates about Hi and H2B visas so we can supply the demand that is there. But I am hearing people whine when I say we need to enforce our immigration laws. and it is because they are afraid they are going to lose their gardener or they are going to lose their housekeeper. I talked to an individual the other day that drove up to the illegal immigrant distribution center. where some of the communities have built a building so they can gather the day laborers there. He pulled his car up and he said. I need someone to work for the day.