Dana Rohrabacher: “We are talking about the United States, the people of the United States, spending $2 billion to educate illegal aliens…”

“We are talking about the United States, the people of the United States, spending $2 billion to educate illegal aliens just in California, $634 million just in New York, $424 million in Florida, and $419 million in Texas. We are talking about $70 million worth of Pell grants being given to illegal alien children. Whose children do we care about? Why are we here? Who are we representing? We are supposed to care about the people of the United States of America. All of these children are wonderful children who have been brought here by illegal aliens. We care about them. But we have to care about our own kids first. That is what this debate is all about. That is why we could never get through any illegal immigration legislation when the Democrats were in control of this body. We care about our children first, and we have no apologies about it. If we keep educating everybody in the world who can sneak across our border and bring their families, anybody who cares about their children throughout the entire planet will do everything they can possibly do to get their kids into our country, and who can blame them? Mr. Chairman, they are wonderful people, they care about their children. We cannot afford to spend all of these billions of dollars, when our own education system is going broke, on educating the children of other people who are not citizens of the United States and have come here illegally. It makes no sense.”