As I say. we are now looking at about 73 million to 93 million more people legally coming into our country in the next 20 years. I wish to emphasize this: Dont think those are small numbers. We are a 300 millionperson country right now. and I am talking about 4 times the legal immigration rate presently existing in our country. Under the current law. we would have 19 million come in over 20 years. Under this bill. we would have 73 million to 93 million coming in by a short 20 years from now. I asked the Judiciary Committee to hold a hearing on April 19 to examine the full impact of the legislation and what we could do about it. I asked that we examine what the estimated numerical impact is of the immigration proposal and how does the future chain migration of family members impact the total immigration numbers under the proposal. I asked that we have hearings on what will be the legislations estimated fiscal impact on the Federal Treasury as well as State and local governments. how will the entitlement programs such as Medicaid. TANF. and food stamps be affected. what level of immigration in the future is in our best national. economic. social. and cultural interests. and what categories of immigrants in terms of skills and education should compose the overall level of annual immigration. I stated that we need to have a national discussion on this issue. The American people need to be involved.
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