[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 5]
[House]
[Pages 6564-6565]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              IMMIGRATION

  (Mr. BROOKS of Alabama asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BROOKS of Alabama. Madam Speaker, while America has the world's 
most generous immigration policy, we simply lack the resources to 
accept all the world's immigrants into America. The President and 
Senate Gang of Eight push an amnesty bill that, per

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The Heritage Foundation, costs American taxpayers a 50-year net tax 
loss of $6.3 trillion. That's a net tax loss of $126 billion per year--
enough to eliminate sequestration.
  In April 2013, a Pew Center poll revealed that 20 percent of all 
Mexicans--that's 22 million Mexicans--say they want to illegally 
immigrate to America if they can get away with it.
  America cannot afford to open these massive floodgates anymore than 
we can afford an amnesty plan that rewards illegal conduct while adding 
$6.3 trillion to America's already dangerous and exploding national 
debt--a debt, I might add, that is already doing significant damage to 
America's economy and national security.

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