Speech #1090131782

That is the HagelMartinez bill. It says the population would grow exponentially. because the millions of new citizens would be permitted to bring along their extended families. The bill includes escalating caps which would raise the number of immigrants allowed as more people seek to enter the United States. These escalating caps essentially go up as the request for more and more HlBs or temporary workers or agriculture workers raises the number. and the cap that grows out of this takes us out to this. Even the chain migration that comes from family members. when one accesses citizenship or even green card holder access. then they can bring in their parents. Certainly if they are married. they can bring in their spouse. their dependent children. Then those people then extend that out and then they offer the opening to go to their family members and their extended family members. This chain migration continues on and on. I have stood on this floor and submitted that everybody that comes into this country on average would have about four family members at a minimum they would want to ask into the United States once they access this path to citizenship. and those four family members I thought was a rather conservative estimate. This study. Mr. Speaker. only claims sixtenths of a family member total with regard to the chain migration. That formula that is here I believe is significantly understated. This number will be much greater. So this 103 million people over the next 20 years. I will submit. by 2026 will be larger than that. because chain migration. in my opinion. and I am not critical of the Rector study except to say I think it is very conservative and I think the numbers will be quite great. we are really talking about emptying out Central America into the United States and a population that is perhaps as much as twothirds. at least more than 60 percent of the population of the United States of America. increase that much again. We can see in 20 years a population growth here in America that would take this 300 million on up to 500 million. and by the next generation we are well on our way to 1 billion people here in America. Now I am not saying that we cannot feed them.