Political Quotes

“Arizona is not the only State dramatically affected by illegal immigration. The INS estimates that there are 4 million illegal immigrants in the United States and that this number is growing by 300,000 to 400,000 each year. While the United States has always been, and should continue to be, a land of opportunity for U.S. citizens and for those who come here illegally, we simply cannot afford as a nation to continue to incur the unrestrained costs of illegal immigration--in jobs, in welfare, in education, in health care, in crime on our streets, and on our penal system. To illustrate the effect, consider that over one-quarter of all Federal prisoners are foreign-born, up from 4 percent as recently as 1980. Again, over 25 percent of all Federal prisoners are foreign-born. It was only 4 percent just 15 years ago. As we all know, yesterday was tax day. It is not fair, given our $5 trillion debt and annual $200 million in deficit spending, to ask law-abiding taxpayers to pay for those who choose to violate our laws to come to this country illegally, or even to pay for legal immigrants who, once here, quickly come to depend on our Nation for welfare and other public benefits. S. 1664 will go a long way toward eliminating those incentives.”