William C. Baker: “I move to strike the requisite number of words, and I rise in support of the Roberts amendment. We should begin paying…”

“I move to strike the requisite number of words, and I rise in support of the Roberts amendment. We should begin paying for these things. That is what the debate on the balanced budget amendment was, and this is going to be one of those small items that we are asking local governments to fulfill that ought to be paid for. Now, should we ask schools to ask their students, ``Are you a citizen?'' There is tremendous cost involved here. Second question: ``Are either of your parents a U.S. citizen?'' Tremendous expense here. People come here to have their babies, it is charged. We give free hospitalization, we print in Medicare--Medical, in California--in several languages, ``We won't turn you in. We will give you free service if you want to have your baby here. We will pay for it.'' Where would you, if you lived in Latin America, want to have your child? Free delivery, free health care, free schooling on the U.S. taxpayer. Folks, enough is enough. It is time we not only pay for the government we are having today, it is time to say we limit that service to the U.S. citizens and to those aliens who have waited patiently for 5 years to become citizens of the United States. Instead, we say to anybody that can hobble, crawl, or swim or get over the border, ``We will open up the treasury for you.'' And then we go home and talk how conservative we are and how we are going to balance the budget. Who are we fooling? Free education.…”