Stephen Horn: “Mario Alberto Martinez, who murdered the Mexican Presidential candidate, Luis Donald Colosio, was an illegal alien. He…”

“Mario Alberto Martinez, who murdered the Mexican Presidential candidate, Luis Donald Colosio, was an illegal alien. He was also a member of a political party in California, in this case he had registered as a Democrat. A few days ago, channel 9, KCAL-TV in Los Angeles, interviewed a number of illegal aliens. One they interviewed was a registered Republican. So this is not a party problem. This is an American citizen problem as to who should have the franchise in our country. The board of supervisors of Los Angeles County is now having this situation investigated, but as a lot of us said when we passed that so-called motor-voter registration bill, we will have more voter fraud in this country, more misuse of the franchise, and more illegals registering. To my colleagues who are not from California, the fact that we have 52 seats in the House is due--at least in the case of 4 or 5 of those 52 seats--to our illegal alien population. We also need to work in a bipartisan manner to solve that problem. Back to Mr. Martinez. He was a border inhabitant who ranged freely from the slums of Tijuana to the streets of Los Angeles, where he registered to vote in 1990 and 1993. You decide which is worse: that he was able to freely cross the border, or that a public agency conferred upon him the hard-won benefit of democracy. While we may see the right to vote as a precious right, apparently Mr. Martinez did not.”