Speech #1090134967

I am just saying for an absolute factan absolute factthat we cannot accept everybody who would like to come here. Therefore. we should decide how to create a system that makes the laws enforceable and then enforce them. and we ought to seek to bring in people who provide the greatest asset to America. So we will be confronting another issue we need to confront. and that is chain migration. Once a person comes in and they get that green card and then they become a citizen. once they get the green card. they can bring their wife and children. They may have six children. And the wife gets to come and the children get to come. Then. in addition to that. once they become a citizen. they can bring their parents and their brothers and sisters. even if it is a large number of them. They can bring. through this chain migration system. huge numbers of people who may not be what our Nation needs at the time. Maybe there is a glut in the skills their brother or sister has. Maybe those things would mitigate against them. And maybe there is some college graduate in the Dominican Republic who is anxious to come but does not qualify. cannot get in because the visas have been used up by this chain migration process. which makes no sense and needs to be altered. Also. we need to consider the impact on the Federal Treasury. Even as a green card holder and as a citizen. you are entitled to an earned income tax credit. Most of the people legalized or coming in under this bill would be lower wage workers. and the earned income tax credit for those who qualify amounts to a tax refund to a lower wage worker on average of $2.400 per worker. per year. So they would qualify for the earned income tax credit. their parents would qualify for SSI health care. Social Security benefits as we have in this bill. welfare benefits. education. and health care. The bill calls for instate tuition for illegal immigrants. That is still in here via the DREAM Act. Those kinds of things are in this bill.