[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5676]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  ILLEGALS SHOULD NOT RECEIVE WELFARE

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, according to a Center of Immigration 
Studies report cited in the Houston Chronicle, 70 percent of Texas' 
illegal immigrant families with at least one anchor baby collect 
welfare from Uncle Sam. People illegally in the United States should 
not receive welfare. American citizens shouldn't pay for the welfare of 
people who violate the law to enter this country.
  Illegals are also draining our health care system. Sixty percent of 
the births over the last 4 years at a public hospital in Houston, 
Texas, were by women living here illegally.
  I was recently in Cochise County, Arizona, where they have been 
forced to shut down almost all of their maternity wards because they 
can't financially support all of the illegals coming into the country.
  Mr. Speaker, illegal immigration is breaking the bank. Let's take 
care of our citizens and legal immigrants first. Are you in, Mr. 
President?
  And that's just the way it is.

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