[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 83 (Tuesday, May 20, 2008)]
[House]
[Page H4158]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     AMERICA CANNOT AFFORD ILLEGALS

  (Mr. POE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. POE. Mr. Speaker, America cannot afford illegals.
  Last year, according to the Los Angeles County Supervisor, ``Illegals 
cost the county $220 million in public safety, $400 million in health 
care, and $440 million in welfare. Total cost to taxpayers for illegals 
far exceeds $1 billion a year, not counting millions for their (free) 
education.''
  ``This new information,'' he continued, ``shows an alarming increase 
in the devastating impact illegals continue to have on taxpayers.''
  Illegals should not receive welfare or government assistance. Many 
Americans and legal immigrants don't receive needed social services and 
health care because money is going to those illegally on the land. Try 
getting treated in any hospital emergency room in the country. The 
silent secret in the crowded waiting room is that many there are 
illegals getting health care that someone else--Americans--pay for.
  Still doubting? Then wander up to the maternity ward, where the 
mothers illegally in the United States are having babies at somebody 
else's expense.
  Failure to control the borders allows illegal trespassers to reap 
what they have not sown and take what they have not earned from America 
and from legal immigrants.
  And that's just the way it is.

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