[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 141 (Monday, October 18, 1999)]
[House]
[Pages H10158-H10162]
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 CONCERNS ABOUT IMMIGRATION AND POPULATION GROWTH IN THE UNITED STATES

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under the Speaker's announced policy of 
January 6, 1999, the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Tancredo) is 
recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the majority leader.
  Mr. TANCREDO. Mr. Speaker, I rise tonight to discuss an issue of 
great concern to me, I think of a number of people in the United States 
of America, but an issue that seldom makes its way to the point of 
being a topic of debate here in the Congress of the United States, and 
that is because, quite frankly, there are many, many people who are 
concerned, actually afraid, to bring this topic forward. I am talking 
specifically about the issue of immigration into the United States. And 
I mean massive immigration, immigration both legal and illegal.
  I want to talk tonight about some of the effects of this particular 
phenomenon, because I believe they are detrimental; and I believe that 
we should confront them, even though it is sort of, politically anyway, 
very scary to do so.
  Each year, close to 900,000 legal immigrants enter the United States 
from foreign countries; and these numbers have inflated our population 
to over 272 million. Mr. Speaker, the other day the world's population, 
we are told, reached 6 billion. Several cartoons have appeared in the 
papers in my State of Colorado depicting this phenomenon and saying 
that we are reaching a point where the resources of the country, of the 
Nation, of the world cannot support this kind of population growth.
  Well, I do not know what is the critical mass in terms of population 
growth that the world can sustain, but I know in the United States we 
are reaching the point where growth is impacting upon us quite 
dramatically. Certainly it is in my State of Colorado. We are facing 
now at least two bond issues on our ballot in November dealing 
specifically with the issue of growth, both in terms of highway 
construction and how to deal with the massive increase in the numbers 
of people that have come to Colorado, and light rail construction 
totaling several billion dollars anyway, and then, of course, there are 
all the school bond issues we are going to face. This is just in 
Colorado. It is happening all over the country because of growth.
  But where is this growth coming from? Is it from the population of 
the United States, the natural born population of this country? Are we 
experiencing just this kind of pressure because people in the United 
States are having children in such numbers that they are placing these 
burdens on our infrastructure? No, Mr. Speaker, it is not because of 
that kind of population growth. It is because of immigration policies.
  We, tonight, are looking at immigration numbers that I just 
mentioned, of somewhere close to a million legal, and that is just 
legal immigrants. That does not count what we call refugee status, 
people coming in. It certainly does not count illegal immigrants. Every 
year there is a net increase. I mean we have a lot of people coming 
into the country illegally, everybody knows that. Some of them leave, 
go back to their native country, but many stay. So there is a net 
increase every year of at least this amount of legal immigrants. And it 
is difficult to count, of course, but we know that the pressures are 
there.
  One State in which this pressure is evidenced day in and day out, 
besides the State of Colorado, of course, is the State of Texas. And 
there are a number of border States across the United States that are 
heavily influenced by this and that things are changing dramatically in 
those States, not just in terms of infrastructure costs, but there are 
a number of changes that are impacting those States that I think 
deserve to be discussed.

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  With me tonight to do that is a colleague of mine, I should say a 
mentor specifically on this issue. Because the gentleman from Texas 
(Mr. Smith) has been laboring in this vineyard for many, many, many 
years, far more than I; and I do look to him and his leadership in this 
area. I am pleased that he is joining me tonight to discuss this issue.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Smith).
  Mr. SMITH of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I thank my friend and colleague, the 
gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Tancredo), for yielding me time; and I 
appreciate his giving me the opportunity tonight to be able to make 
some comments of my own on such an important subject.
  But first I want to thank him for his giving the attention to such a 
complex, sensitive and yet important subject that it deserves and also 
thank the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Tancredo) for his expertise and 
for his knowledge of immigration, which I think provides a great 
contribution to those of us here in the House who certainly can benefit 
from his personal knowledge, firsthand knowledge, of immigration as it 
impacts his State of Colorado.
  Mr. Speaker, I would like to call the attention of my colleagues to 
the destructive effect of our current immigration policy. It is having 
a destructive impact on recent immigrants and black and Hispanic 
citizens and also how a more enlightened immigration policy would 
benefit American minorities and, in fact, the overall American economy.
  Each year, close to 900,000 legal immigrants enter the United States. 
Of these, about 300,000 have less than a high school education and 
their competition for scarce jobs does have a destructive impact on the 
opportunity of American workers with no more than a high school diploma 
who are disproportionately and unfortunately recent immigrants and 
black and Hispanic citizens.
  Mr. Speaker, among reports of a growing, prospering economy are other 
more troubling reports on a growing

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gap between the well-to-do and the working poor. The national 
unemployment rate is about 4 percent; where, for those with less than a 
high school education, it is more than twice as high, over 8 percent.
  In many cities where there are high recent immigrant populations, the 
unemployment rates are in double digits for those with less education. 
Where is opportunity for these individuals and their families?
  Numerous polls indicate that black and Hispanic Americans know this 
only too well. This is no surprise, given that they are hurt 
disproportionately by our immigration policy today. We cannot pretend 
that the adverse impact of mass immigration on minorities does not 
exist. We can and should find solutions to protect the jobs and wages 
of recent immigrants and black and Hispanic citizens.
  How often do we read about the long-term unemployed or the working 
poor or single mothers with no mention of the serious impact of 
immigration on their employment wages and working conditions? How often 
do we hear comments about the growing gap between the well-to-do and 
the working poor that do not mention that almost half the relative 
decline in wages of those who do not finish high school is caused, in 
fact, by competition from immigration?
  Think of a single mother barely surviving in a minimum wage job who 
sees her annual wages depressed by $2,000 because she must compete with 
more and more unskilled immigrants. She very well might be a recent 
immigrant herself seeking a better life for herself and her children, 
or she might be able to trace her roots in this country back 
generations and is simply seeking the American dream that has been 
denied her ancestors.
  Think what she can do for herself and her children with that lost 
money. Buy a used car so she does not have to take a bus to work. Put a 
down payment on a modest home. Or even fix the furnace before winter 
comes. Worse, think what would happen if she actually loses her job 
because of the never-ending competition from new arrivals.
  It is certainly not the immigrants themselves who are to blame and 
who understandably want to come to America. It is our immigration 
policy that is to blame. But who knows how many people have been hurt 
by the unintended consequences of our outdated immigration policy.

  A series of recent studies have all documented the effects of 
immigration policy on low-skilled American workers and recent 
immigrants. The National Research Council of the National Academy of 
Sciences concludes that immigration was responsible for about 44 
percent of the total decline in relative wages of high school dropouts 
between 1980 and 1994.
  The Rand Corporation reports that in California the widening gap 
between the number of jobs available for noncollege-educated workers 
and the increasing number of new noncollege-educated immigrants signals 
growing competition for jobs and, hence, a further decline in the 
relative earnings at the low end of the labor market.
  The U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform, chaired by Congresswoman 
Barbara Jordan, finds that ``immigration of unskilled immigrants comes 
at a cost to unskilled U.S. workers.''
  The Hudson Institute states that ``U.S. immigration policy serves 
primarily to increase the number of U.S. residents who lack even a high 
school degree. America must stop recruiting workers for jobs that do 
not exist or exist only at the lowest wages.''
  The Brookings Institute published a paper concluding that 
``immigration has had a marked adverse impact on the economic status of 
the least skilled U.S. workers.''
  The Center for Immigration Studies calculates that immigration may 
reduce the wages of the average native in a low-skilled occupation by 
over $1,900 a year.
  CIS also found that the poverty rate for persons living in immigrant 
households of 1997 was 22 percent, almost double the 12 percent rate 
for persons in native households.
  It concluded that reducing the flow of less skilled immigrants who 
enter each year would have the desirable effect of reducing job 
competition between more established immigrants and new arrivals for 
low-wage jobs. Reducing the supply of this kind of labor would create 
upward pressure on wages and benefits for the working poor, including 
immigrants already in the country. Over time, this should reduce 
poverty among immigrants who work.
  These studies reinforce what common sense already tells us.
  In addition, Mr. Speaker, add three other facts together. First, 
immigrants will account for half of the increase in the workforce in 
the 1990s.
  Second, the skilled level of immigrants relative to Americans has 
been declining for years. Thirty-five percent of immigrant workers who 
have arrived since 1990 do not have a high school education, compared 
to only 9 percent of native-born workers. Some 300,000 illegal 
immigrants without high school educations arrived last year and will 
total 3 million this decade.
  Third, close to 90 percent of all future jobs in America will require 
more than a high school education.
  The mismatch is clear. Nearly half of all immigrants today are not 
prepared for the jobs of the future. Current immigration policy has 
many Americans and recent immigrants competing with hundreds of 
thousands of newcomers without high school degrees for a fixed number 
of low-skilled jobs. This is a recipe for disaster for millions of 
blue-collar workers and their families.
  No one should complain about the plight of the working poor or the 
persistence of minority unemployment or the levels of income inequality 
in America without acknowledging the unintended consequences of our 
present immigration policy.
  Of course, immigration is neither all good nor all bad. Immigrants 
benefit America in many ways. But we should design our immigration 
policies so that it enhances rather than diminishes opportunity for 
American workers. We should protect the jobs of working Americans, and 
we can make a better life for all Americans wherever they were born.
  Just as American minorities would benefit from a reduced number of 
low-skilled immigrants, the American economy and American firms trying 
to prosper in this era of global competition would benefit enormously 
from an increased flow of more educated immigrants. American industry 
is pleading for more skilled and educated workers.
  The chairman of the National Association of Manufacturers recently 
stated that ``the shortage of skilled employees is not a distant threat 
anymore. The skills gap is now catching up to us and could threaten the 
amazing growth and productivity gains of the past decade. Finding an 
adequate supply of qualified employees is the number one issue for 
American industry today.''
  NAM found that 88 percent of manufacturers are experiencing a 
shortage of qualified workers, 60 percent find that current workers 
lack basic math skills and that 55 percent find serious deficiencies in 
workers' basic writing and comprehension skills. These problems can be 
solved with more educated workers. And because immigration accounts for 
such a high percentage of workforce growth, almost one-half, an 
emphasis on more educated immigrants would be an important part of the 
solution. The result would be a more productive American economy and 
more productive American businesses. As the productivity of the 
American economy increases, so will the prosperity of all Americans.

  American citizens and legal residents will benefit in another way 
from more educated immigrants. To borrow a line from a new book by 
George Borjas, ``Skilled immigrants earn more, pay higher taxes, and 
require fewer social services than less skilled immigrants.''
  The National Academy of Sciences states that over his or her 
lifetime, each immigrant with less than a high school education will 
cost American taxpayers $89,000. That is, the Government benefits 
consumed by each immigrant will exceed taxes they paid by $89,000.
  To citizens concerned about how we are to rebuild our schools and 
protect and preserve Social Security in the next century, these numbers 
should set off alarms. More than 300,000 immigrant workers with less 
than a high school education entering our country this year will 
require $27 billion more in government services and benefits than they 
will contribute in taxes.

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 That is $27 billion, for example, that will not be available to 
rebuild our schools and protect and preserve Social Security and 
Medicare.
  Next year another 300,000-plus immigrants will enter the country with 
less than a high school education. Over their lifetimes, they will 
claim another $27 billion that could provide education and training to 
recent immigrants and black and Hispanic citizens who have less than a 
high school education and who are disadvantaged in our economy.
  Common sense tells us that we should align our immigration policy 
with the needs of America. The economy is crying out for more educated 
workers, and one of the easiest and most cost-free ways of providing 
these workers is through immigration reform. Doing so would mean more 
economic opportunity for all Americans.
  Mr. Speaker, now I am happy to yield back to the gentleman from 
Colorado (Mr. Tancredo) and thank him again for sharing his time 
tonight with me and thank him again for his attention to such an 
important subject and for his expertise on the subject, as well.
  Mr. TANCREDO. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Texas (Mr. 
Smith) for his comments, and I sincerely appreciate his contribution to 
this discussion which I consider to be quite definitive. As I say, he 
has had quite some time here even in the Congress of the United States 
to become involved with it, and I only hope that the rest of our 
colleagues will pay heed to his admonitions and to his clarion call for 
a change in immigration policies in the United States, and I want to 
thank him very sincerely for his support on this particular issue.
  Mr. Speaker, every time we talk about the issue of immigration, it 
always results in someone coming up and saying something like, this is 
a Nation of immigrants. We are all immigrants.
  And it is absolutely true that, unless our heritage is native 
American, and even then I guess you could say that they immigrated 
here, of course, across the Bering Strait, we are in fact a Nation of 
immigrants. This is undeniable. There was a time when immigration 
patterns across the world were such that the United States was the 
recipient of many hundreds of thousands of people, going into the 
millions, over a period of time.
  Of course, I am speaking specifically of the turn of the century, 
especially where the United States was the place to which people came; 
it was a harbinger of hope. And it still is to many millions of people 
throughout the world.
  I totally understand it. If I were an immigrant, if I were someone 
not in the United States, if I were someone born in other lands, 
especially into poverty, I would be doing exactly the same thing that 
we see millions and millions of them doing; and that is trying to come 
here. But my responsibility is different as a Congressman in this body. 
It is to address the issues that I believe are of concern and of a 
negative impact in terms of the general population of the country. And 
I believe immigration at this level, what I would certainly refer to as 
massive immigration, is not positive anymore.
  Let me talk for a moment about the differences that exist between 
what we see today as immigration patterns and the situation in the 
United States as opposed to what it was around the turn of the century, 
of the last century.
  The fact is that, of course, my grandparents came here about the same 
time as did millions of other people. And at that time this country was 
a place that relied upon brawn far more than anything else. We needed 
immigrant labor, low-skilled immigrant labor. It contributed to the 
capital development in this country, and it contributed to the well 
being of everyone.

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  The economy grew, the economic well-being of the families that 
emigrated grew, people prospered, and it was, generally speaking, a 
positive thing for the Nation. But we are in a brand new environment, a 
brand new environment that is not as hospitable to low-skilled labor as 
it was at the turn of the century. Today's needs are different. This 
Nation's needs are different. What we now see is that a massive 
immigration of low-skilled people have a detrimental effect on a number 
of things in the United States, including, of course, people who are at 
the lowest level of the economic scale. This is, I think, something 
that should concern us all and it is something I believe that my 
colleague from Texas addressed very clearly and very articulately, that 
the people in the United States that we find in most need of help are 
those people who are detrimentally affected by massive immigration. By 
the way, never before in our Nation's history, never, even at the 
beginning of the century, have we ever experienced the numbers of 
immigrants as we are presently that are a result of, quote, legal 
immigration alone, let alone illegal immigration. The numbers are far 
greater today than they ever were before. At present, just over 60 
percent of the population growth in the United States is due to 
immigration. By 2050, it will be 90 percent, with a domestic population 
approaching 400 million people. Even if we allowed for a zero net 
increase in immigration, the population would increase by almost 75 
million people by 2050 because of our recent track record. That is if 
we stopped immigration totally, today.
  From 1997 to 1998, just 1 year in Colorado, almost 10,000 immigrants 
moved in and 3,000 people settled in Denver alone. These are legal 
immigrants. Far more came in illegally. Everybody knows it. Employers 
know it. School districts know it. The people who try to get to work 
and are confronted with massive traffic jams know it. I do not mean to 
say that all the people on the roads in Colorado and everywhere else, 
States not necessarily border States, are people who just came here 
from other countries, emigrated legally or illegally. But what I will 
tell you is that massive immigration causes a dislocation of 
populations, a movement of populations, and there are literally 
thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of people even in my State, even 
in Colorado, who have moved there recently as a result of population 
pressures in the States from which they came, California, Florida, 
Texas and others, those population pressures brought on by immigration. 
So even though it may not be specifically immigrants in Colorado that 
caused the massive sort of problems we have with growth, they are 
exacerbated by our immigration policies nationally which do affect 
population trends in States all over the Nation.
  With this major influx of people comes an influx of problems for 
United States citizens. Immigrants, both legal and illegal, are 
affecting all aspects of life within our society. From influencing our 
domestic job market causing lower wages for American citizens and even 
other recent immigrants, to the environment where a surging population 
means greater stress on our natural habitat, placing a true burden on 
our welfare system, we are feeling the strains of massive immigration 
in our economy.
  In 1997, the National Research Council calculated the net fiscal cost 
of public services to immigrants, and I want to stress here, Mr. 
Speaker, the net fiscal cost, because when we get into this debate 
about what immigrants produce, what they contribute to the society as 
to what they take from the government services, there is always a 
debate about this, because we say, after all they come here, they get 
jobs, they pay taxes, that is true. But when they calculate the net 
fiscal cost of public services to immigrants, that is, after those 
taxes are paid and when we include education, welfare, Medicaid, 
housing assistance and Social Security beyond what immigrants pay in 
taxes, it was between 15 to $20 billion a year.
  Now we are being asked to shoulder the burden placed on the economy 
of our current massive levels of immigration. In California, for 
example, each household must pay $1,178 a year in added taxes to cover 
the services which immigrants receive each year. Then there is the 
issue of poverty. We address that almost daily in the Congress of the 
United States. In every committee this issue comes up over and over 
again. We are now wrestling with all of the appropriations bills and we 
are constantly dealing with the issue of the poverty rate in the United 
States and we are fighting it. We are attempting to do what the 
government can do to reduce poverty levels in the United States. But it 
is the fact that a great percentage of this, of the group that we 
identify as being in poverty in the United States, far over a majority, 
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matter of fact, are recent immigrants to the United States, again both 
legal and illegal.
  Why is that? For one reason, over 300 of the legal immigrants who 
enter the country have less than a high school education as was pointed 
out by the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Smith). Likewise, the unemployment 
rate for people with less than a high school education is twice as high 
than for those with more schooling. I will tell you, also, there is 
another difference. I mentioned earlier there is a significant 
difference between what is happening in America today and what happened 
in America at the turn of the century with regard to immigration. When 
you came to the United States in 1900 as an immigrant, you had very few 
options in terms of what you were going to do for the rest of your 
life. You could work, or you could starve. There were no other options 
available to you. And in order to work, in order especially to progress 
in an upward way in order to go up the scale in America, to get a 
better job, to do better for your family, you had to do something else. 
You also had to learn English. It was an absolute necessity. It was not 
brought about because of any law. Well, it was a law, it was a law of 
economics. That is to say, if you wanted to do better in the United 
States, you had to learn English and you had to get a job.
  Well, things are different in the United States today because of the 
welfare system we have in the United States, which is, by the way, bad 
for native-born Americans just as it is bad for immigrants, because of 
our insistence on issues like bilingual education and a type of 
bilingual education that allows children to actually try to go to 
school and be educated in a language other than English, and for a 
variety of other reasons we find ourselves looking at this immigration 
issue much differently than we did in 1900. It has an impact, a much 
more negative impact than it ever did before. One-third of the yearly 
immigration population is competing for jobs with a sector of society 
that is already plagued with high levels of unemployment.
  Let us look at what is happening in our schools. Currently, there are 
8 million school aged children with immigrant mothers. The influx of 
immigration is having dire effects on the ability to educate our 
children. In Los Angeles, for example, nearly two-thirds of the 
children in Los Angeles County schools are Hispanic and 43 percent of 
school children in California have parents who are immigrants. What 
does this mean? Well, it means, of course, larger classes. More 
children receive less attention. It means that precious resources for 
books, classroom space are being strained to the breaking point, 
trailers having to make do where classrooms once stood. It means a 
diversion of funds into remedial programs and away from the programs of 
hard science, math and history. It leads to racial separation between 
and among schools. There are significant problems we face because just 
the cost of bilingual education in this country is dramatic. Certainly 
in my own State we have noticed that the costs of supporting a 
bilingual education plan in several of our districts have caused school 
districts to come forward and request more funds time after time after 
time. This is not even talking about the value, the relative value of 
bilingual education which I would certainly like to critique, because I 
do not believe it is of great educational benefit.
  It is not just the numbers, Mr. Speaker. That, we could deal with. 
The fact is that yes, we will have to build more schools; yes, we will 
have to hire more teachers; yes, there will be pressures for greater 
and greater resources to address the issue of more people. But then it 
is what happens even afterwards, in the development of, as I say, these 
bilingual programs and multicultural programs that have a tendency, 
unfortunately, I must say this, have a tendency to balkanize America. 
That is the other difference between the kind of immigration patterns 
we saw in the early 1900s and immigration patterns today. Instead of 
pressures within the United States to amalgamate the people who were 
coming here and bring them into the melting pot, instead of having a 
great desire on the part of most if not all of the immigrants in the 
early 1900s to become part of the American experience in every single 
way, we are seeing something else happening with recent immigrants to 
the United States, in that their desire is, of course, to achieve an 
economic level of existence that is comparable to what we would call 
the typical American experience, but something happens in terms of the 
willingness on the part of a lot of people to accept the greater 
American dream. We see a tendency to balkanize America, to break 
ourselves up into separate little enclaves, separated by language and 
culture.
  This has a number of detrimental effects, of course. I hope that we 
will have the courage to address them as we get into the greater issues 
of immigration policies in America. But I think they are significant 
and I think most people in America know to what I am referring. I am 
referring to this phenomenon that changes the way we think about 
ourselves as Americans, as opposed to one Nation, one set of ideas, one 
historical perspective, to a Nation totally divided into a number of 
different camps with different ideas about American history.
  I think we should cut back, and I think we should cut back 
dramatically on the number of immigrants which we are allowing into the 
country and we should do that through the implementation of legislation 
such as the moratorium bill of the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Stump). 
We would better serve these immigrants by enabling them to have a 
better chance of achieving employment. Likewise, with less numbers of 
total immigrants these new arrivals to the United States would have an 
easier time of assimilating into their new society and the future 
American citizen. I agree with my colleague from Texas who indicated 
that perhaps a different group of immigrants ought to be identified as 
appropriate for immigration into the United States, and that being 
better educated.
  There is one last issue I want to address, and, that is, the issue of 
immigrants and crime. Criminal aliens, that is, noncitizens who commit 
crimes, accounted for over 25 percent of the Federal prison population 
in 1993. I want to say that again, Mr. Speaker, because I do not think 
many people realize this. But criminal aliens, noncitizens who commit 
crimes, accounted for over 25 percent of the Federal prison population 
in 1993. They also represent the fastest growing segment. This does not 
count naturalized immigrants who commit crimes. About 450,000 
noncitizens have been convicted of crimes and are either in American 
jails, on probation or on parole. In May 1990, foreign-born criminals 
comprised 18 percent of the inmates passing through the LA County jail 
inmate reception center. Some 11 percent had offenses sufficiently 
serious to qualify them as deportable aliens. A year later, in May 
1991, a follow-up study showed only half of those deportable aliens had 
been returned to their country of origin.

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  Over 40 percent had already been re-arrested in the United States for 
new offenses.
  This is a result of a massive immigration problem and an immigrant 
policy, an immigration policy of this administration that chooses to 
ignore some of the most significant problems, the most significant 
crimes committed by people even before they come into this country. We 
do not go through their backgrounds, as we used to, and we end up with 
this kind of a problem in the United States.
  I know in Colorado that a significant portion of the Colorado inmate 
population is made up by immigrants, both legal and illegal. The costs, 
again, of this kind of thing have to be added to the costs of 
education, costs of welfare, other costs of social services. So it is a 
significant issue.
  The last, Mr. Speaker, and I mentioned that was the last thing; there 
is one more thing, Immigrants To The Public Charge. According to law, 
legal permanent residents are liable to be deported on a public charge 
if they use public benefits during their first 5 years in the United 
States, and although actually millions of people do this, only 41 
people were deported on these grounds from 1961 to 1982.
  Another issue is children under the birthright citizenship provision 
who are born in the United States and are automatically American 
citizens entitled to cash payments under the Federal Aid For Families 
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Children program. Parents who often are illegal aliens are able to 
collect these checks, gain a foothold in the United States until their 
child turns 18, at which point they can be sponsored and made legal 
immigrants. The IRS makes no effort to prevent illegal aliens from 
receiving earned income tax refunds, which are sometimes payable even 
if no income tax is due and can exceed $2000. If a false Social 
Security number is used, an IRS agent will then assign a temporary 
number.
  Well, these are some of the more egregious examples of the problems 
that we experience as a result of massive immigration into this 
country, Mr. Speaker; and I do hope that my colleagues will pay 
attention to them and will try to address them both by reducing the 
number of legal immigrants and by enforcing that with stricter policies 
on the border with using, if necessary, with using the Armed Forces of 
the United States to protect our borders which, as a matter of fact, is 
a perfect reason for having an Army, and that is to protect your 
borders, and in this case we need that protection against a flood of 
immigration of illegal immigrants that are seriously jeopardizing the 
situation in America today.

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