Speech #1140080503

I know you personally. and you and I and our colleagues. we talk about it. We have talked about it todayheated conference- because we want a better country even than we have had with more opportunity. more freedoms. as we see freedom slipping away. Adam Kredo has a story here: "The flow of illegal immigrant children into the United States is expected to rise to recordbreaking numbers in 2016 as deportations decrease. according to leading members of the Senates Judiciary Committee. "At least 20.455 unaccompanied minors have been caught during fiscal year 2016 along the U.S.-Mexico border as of last month. according to Committee Chairman Senator CHUCK GRASSLEY. who warned that if this trend continues. the number of illegal minors could eclipse a massive 2014 surge that strained the resources of the Department of Homeland Security and prompted investigations into the Obama administrations handling of the issue." Now. one of many problems is you have people that are coming to America because there are more opportunities here. which begs the question: Why are there more opportunities here than there are in their home country? When you analyze the situation. what you find is the reason they dont have businesses booming in their home country is because of graft or corruption or a corrupt government or a dictatorship because. as the old saying goes. "capital is a coward." Money to capitalize or invest always goes to where it feels safestthat is why it is "capital is a coward"-and it is not very safe in countries where the government is corrupt. the rule of law is not applied across the board. and the laws are not enforced across the board. One of the great ironies in the world right now is that people are leaving countries where there is violence and the rule of law is not enforced. They are coming to America where. for most of our history. we have done a better job than most any country ever in enforcing the law across the board. Once here illegally. those same people are saying: Now that we are here. we want you not to enforce the law across the board. We want you to ignore your law on immigration and law on becoming citizens. Ignore it. If we do that. it will make us like the corrupt countries they came from and make us a land of no opportunity. where people will have to go to some other country where they enforce the law.