Nathan Deal: “I think the information just brought forward by the gentleman from California (Mr. Rohrabacher) is certainly pertinent…”

“I think the information just brought forward by the gentleman from California (Mr. Rohrabacher) is certainly pertinent to the issue of the 245(i) matter that is still pending before this Congress. Mr. Speaker, we should learn some things when we have studies and censuses and other reports made, because we spend a lot of money doing this. If we will just look at a few statistics. For example, the latest census of 2000 tells us that approximately 8.7 million people are undocumented illegal aliens living in this country. That is about 1 million more than most people estimated was going to show up in the report. According to those figures, we are having about 700,000 a year illegal immigrants entering this country. If that translates down to 1,918 per day, 80 per hour, and approximately one per minute, in other words, since 9-11, we are approaching a half a million illegal immigrants who have entered this country and virtually nothing is being done about it. Let me share some other things. As the gentleman has already alluded to, the 19 terrorists in the 9-11 attack all had Social Security cards, all had Social Security numbers. In fact, 13 of them obtained Social Security cards legally.”