[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 21 (Wednesday, March 2, 1994)]
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         SUPPORT URGED FOR COMMITTEE APPROACH TO ILLEGAL ALIENS

  (Mr. MAZZOLI asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute, and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MAZZOLI. Mr. Speaker, later today, or possibly tomorrow, we will 
take up a package of two amendments offered by the gentleman from 
California [Mr. Rohrabacher] dealing with illegal aliens and with using 
the school systems to identify them in order to deny funding for the 
education of these children.
  I realize the frustration many of us feel as we see a situation in 
which we do not have control of our borders. There are many people who 
are in our country illegally who are consuming social welfare programs, 
educational programs, and health care programs, all to the diminution 
of the available funds for our own citizens and residents.
  I hope, however, that our colleague will not accept those amendments 
and will join with me and other members of my Subcommittee on 
International Law and Immigration in trying to fashion a bill that will 
keep people out of this country who are seeking to enter illegally and 
to reform, as I hope we will, the asylum laws to make sure people to do 
not play games or abuse the system, to improve the Border Patrol so 
people are apprehended as they enter the country, and to have employer 
sanctions strengthened with more teeth so that the job lure is turned 
off which lures people, in some cases, across the border into the 
United States.
  Again I realize the frustration and torment that many of my 
colleagues are feeling, but I hope they can hold off on that and not 
accept the gentleman's amendments and try to support us in our efforts 
to make the system better by keeping the people without documents out 
of the country in the first place.

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