Speech #1100028129

I am happy to yield to the gentleman to make any clarification he likes. but I have a flow in my thought process here that I want to make sure I can stay with here. The published numbers. though. was supposed to be amnesty for 1 million and ended up being 3.1 million the numbers I have. Then if you go up to 1996 in California. when President Clinton accelerated the naturalization of a group of citizens in the number of 1 million in 1996. So I am pointing this out that 1 million people was an outrageously high number in 1986. was an outrageously high number in 1996. and last year. the Senate passed a bill that legalized 66.1 million people. and we swallowed that and talked about it not in terms of the magnitude of it but just simply is it amnesty or is it not amnesty. But put this into the scope. that the point I want to make here is that my numbers show. my census numbers. from 1820 until the year 2000. and those would be the years when our census was keeping track of the naturalization. that period of time. 1820 to 2000. the sum total. the cumulative total of all naturalized citizens come into the United States was 66 million. So the Senate would have legalized a number in one of the stroke of the pen equal to the sum total of all legal immigrants that have come into America in all of its history and still leave these kind of programs here. That is the essence of the point I wanted to make.