Political Quotes

“the amendment which would have required the schools to count the number of illegal aliens at no time suggested that those schools turn any name of anyone over to any Federal authority. It is understood the amendment, of course, was a tactic used to obfuscate the central point, and the purpose of that amendment was to get a count. The amendment was very clear and the newspaper accounts of my amendment were very clear that at no time did I require, suggest, or in any way make any type of hint that local school districts should be taking the names of the children and turning them over to the INS. We specifically by that amendment wanted a count. All we needed to do was to get a count of the problem. In California we have millions of people who have come there from other countries, not just from Latin America and Mexico but from other countries of the world as well, who are now receiving educational benefits for their children. It is breaking the budget.”