Speech #1100028122

I have sat on the border and I have heard the fence squeak at night. and I have watched the shadows go by me. It is twice the size of Santa Anas army pouring across the border. And then we have the 350.000 automatic citizenship anchor babies that are born. and the family reunification plan. All of those things are out of the control of the Federal Government right now. Because we have those elements and we have the overstayers of the visa that are not being enforced. because of that. the immigration issue has become so chaotic that we cannot engage in a rational immigration debate that can be designed to do the things I say and enhance the social. economic. and cultural wellbeing of America. If we can get enforcement back under the control of the American people. then I believe we need to put together a matrix. a score system. a score sheet that rewards potential immigrants for their education level. for the capital that they bring into the country with them. for the business acumen that they might have. for the likelihood that they can assimilate into this broader. overall American culture that we have. so we can have some cultural continuity in the United States of America and assimilate and tie together and maintain this vision of one people. one people under God. As we sit today. it is out of our control. Another thing that we are going to see. a White House initiative. a Senate initiative. and I believe a House initiative coming together trying to get a critical mass of voters between the Democrats and Republicans in the House and Senate to work with the White House on this bill that I believe clearly the American people understand. and that is amnesty. That is the bill which has been dropped in the House within the last day. But the thing we must insist upon. however the issue of amnesty is resolved. however the issue of the national ID card is resolved. we must insist on an overall national cap. The aggregate of all of immigration components that are there. and I think there are 30some different categories that people can come into the United States legally under. that needs to be capped. So if a family reunification plan takes up to a million a year. fine. we hit the cap. we stop. No H1Bs. no work permits. It is simply we hit the cap.