Speech #1140081566

It is incredible. just incredible. Americans are suffering. Then we get this report from cis.org that 61 million immigrants and their children. young children. now live in the United States. Now. most of those. I think 43 million or so. are here legally. But it is worth noting that the number of immigrants and their children grew six times faster than our Nations population between 1970 and 2015. From 1970 to 2015. our United States population has grown by 59 percent. That is a good. healthy growth. In the meantime. the percentage of immigration growth. or the number of immigrants in the United Statesfirst generation. that is. Most all. everybody here. even Native Americans werent native probably at one time. They have come across somewhere. But firstgeneration immigrants who actually immigrated in with children. that number has grown by 353 percent over that same period. In many States. the increase in the number of immigrants and their minor children from 1970 to 2015 has been nothing short of astonishing. In Georgia. the population grew 3.058 percent. whereas. before that. it grew from 55.000 immigrants to 1.75 million immigrants. That is just in Georgia. So the immigrant level grew 20 times faster. 25 times faster. than the overall State population. So thank God for immigration. Thank God for legal immigration. that is. But when we abandon the rule of law and dont give ourselves time to welcome legal immigrants into this country and educate themthere is a reason that they have to be educated and are supposed to learn our language and supposed to learn some history. because there is a tremendous amount of responsibility that comes with the right to vote. You need to understand how you say what Ben Franklin said was "a republic. Madam. if you can keep it." You cannot keep a republic if you dont educate people that are coming in and who are foreign to the idea of the responsibilities of maintaining a republic.