Speech #1090135526

I am afraid some have not given enough thought to that. I wanted to share those remarks at the beginning. because we are dealing with huge numbers of people who will be legalized. We will be dealing with a fundamental expansion of immigration.. a massive amnesty. large increases in governmental expenditures. and an enforcement promise I am not sure we will ever see occur because enforcement was promised in 1986. It was faithfully and honestly guaranteed by supporters of that bill in 1986. and it was never accomplished. I will introduce four amendments this afternoon. The four amendments are. first. a numerical limit amendment. an amendment to cap the immigration increases caused by this bill. The numbers CBO and the White House say we should expect include 7 million and their dependents under amnesty. Additionally. CBO and the White House estimate that under this bill 8 million new immigrants will flow into the country above the current level 10 million over the next 10 years. Got that? What my amendment will do is cap green cards at 7 million for amnesty. plus we are going to add 8 million to the current flow in the future. We think the numbers are higher than that. But that is what the CBO says the numbers are. That is what the White House has trumpeted as the numbers. So at least. I suggest. this Senate should make clear those are the numbers. and lets pass it. so we will not have this danger that the bill will spin out of control or in fact will be much more generous to Immigration than some are currently suggesting. even CBO. Another amendment will be the earnedincome tax credit. This would be an amendment to eliminate the earnedincome tax credit for illegal aliens and those who have adjusted status under this bill. Once illegal aliens become citizens. they will once again be eligible for the earnedincome tax credit. But it is a huge expense. maybe over $20 billion over 20 years. I will have an amendment to deal with chain migration which has to do with provisions that are continued in current law but are not principled and do not serve our Nation well. If we want to admit more skillbased immigrants. we must reduce the right of immigrants to bring in certain categories of relatives. regardless of skill. regardless of ability to perform. We will work on those four amendments. and I hope we will be able to get a vote on them. I know people are saying: No. no. we need to move this bill on.