Political Quotes

“Precisely. When the President vetoed that welfare provision for illegal aliens, when he allowed that welfare provision to keep being paid out, that kept the magnet alive. That kept the magnet that told people that if they came to the United States, as several Social Security ladies showed me when they came in my office, they said: Congressman, here are some illegal alien families making more money on welfare than we are making as GS-11's working for the Federal Government, and they have discovered the joys of daytime television, they are not working. That is a magnet that this President has allowed to keep turned on at full power, that brings people into this country illegally, because he is paying them more in welfare payments than they can make working in their native country. But the point that I am making is this President and Doris Meissner, his INS Commissioner, who is a nice person, have testified against and fought against every Border Patrol increase that we have passed in this Congress, that Republicans have passed.”