Speech #1090142775

I would like to say that I do not think they have thought out some of the things that they have done here. If we have a system that cannot process effectively. that clearly has not processed protection of our borders for people trying to come into this country illegally. how can we take that system and dump between 11 and 15 million people into that system to try to come up with an amnesty for them? How can we process them with the people we have in the immigration department? If it is overwhelmed today. how can we dump that many people in the system and expect it not to be overwhelmed tomorrow? If the idea that you might get amnesty increases our border crossings from the approximately 2 to 3 million people that were dealt with during the Reagan administration to the 11 to 15 million people that are here today. how can processing those people and the additional waves that will come across without border security. how can the system but be overwhelmed by that process? The citizenship issue is very interesting. Americans who are qualified to be in this country legally are making application for citizenship. are finding unbelievable delays in the processing that goes on through our immigration department so that they can meet the qualifications of citizenship. In fact. some of that processing is as much as 6 years behind. In the San Antonio office. those trying to bring people into this country legally are finding delays from 18 months to 10 years to bring people into this country legally.