Speech #1100067495

Senator CORNYN and Senator BUNNING have pointed out a number of things that are weaknesses with the bill. Will this weakness and other items they talked about in the bill actually secure the border? According to CBO. the new Senate bill will only reduce the annual illegal immigration by 13 percent. Illegal inflow at the border will be reduced by approximately 25 percent. but that will be substantially offset by increased additional visa overstays. almost over a half million in the next 10 years. According to CBO. the net result will be only a 1.3 million reduction in new illegal immigrants over the next 20 years. Because we expect under current law 10 million to come over that period illegallythat Is a lotenactment would reduce that expectation to 8.7 million new additional illegal immigrants by 2027. Out of 10 million. we have 8.7 million. I ask my colleagues. is that securing the border? Is that effecting a legal and lawful and effective immigration system? I suggest it is not. There is no way you can say it otherwise. One of the key things of an effective immigration system is the USVISIT exit system. That is not affected in this. I have talked about that some. but I wont go back into that.