[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 5 (Tuesday, January 9, 2018)]
[House]
[Page H66]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
DREAMERS
(Mr. ROHRABACHER asked and was given permission to address the House
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
Mr. ROHRABACHER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to draw attention to the
American people to information that is being kept from them. So often
the good will and good-heartedness of the American people is
manipulated to achieve goals that sometimes are detrimental to our
people and detrimental to our country as well.
Today, the American people are being told that there are young people
who are here illegally, brought by their parents at an early age--they
call them DREAMers--and that we must be concerned about them, as we
are. Of course, we are concerned about them. Our sympathy is with young
people anywhere who want a better life.
But what the American people are not being told is that there are
850,000 of these young people. That is being left out of the
discussion. They are looking to be legalized. When they are legalized,
that means they can apply for family reunification, which means that
they then will receive government benefits and even more people will
come in under their platform.
I suggest that we take a look to see what 850,000 more young people
and the millions more who will come will do to the American people.
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