Dan Burton: “In 1992 we spent $13.2 billion, that is 13,200 million dollars, on primary and secondary education for illegal aliens…”

“In 1992 we spent $13.2 billion, that is 13,200 million dollars, on primary and secondary education for illegal aliens; $8.5 billion in Medicaid; $7.8 billion for local health and welfare services; $2.9 billion for bilingual education; and $2.8 billion for AFDC, and over the next 10 years it is going to cost at least another 225,000 million dollars--that is $225 billion. Now, the majority leader said on this floor a little bit ago if we are going to deal with the illegal aliens problem, we ought to appropriate more money for the Immigration Service. And I agree with that. But that alone will not solve the problem. We need a full court press. From Mexico alone we are getting a new 1.3 million illegal aliens staying in this country every single year. That is just Mexico. That is not coming across the Canadian border or through Miami or anyplace else. We have a virtual tidal wave of illegal aliens. We need a full court press through the health agencies, education agencies, and everything else to deal with this problem; otherwise we are going to be drowning in a sea of red ink caused, in large part, by illegal aliens coming into this country. Mr. Rohrabacher's amendment may not be the panacea for the problem, but it is a step in the right direction. I urge my colleagues to support it.”