Jasper Packard: “Let us take American taxpayer dollars and send it to Mexico or to any other country and educate their children. Those…”

“Let us take American taxpayer dollars and send it to Mexico or to any other country and educate their children. Those that have chosen to stay in their country and to abide by our border laws, they probably have a better right to our taxpayer dollars to educate their children than those that break our laws to bring their children here and get an education at taxpayer expense. Now, I think it would be a ridiculous idea to send our tax dollars to Mexico or to any other country to educate their children. But it is more plausible and more just and more reasonable than to invite them to come illegally into our country and educate the children. Now, you think about that. We will not send our money to foreign countries to educate their children, but I think a parent of a child that stays in their own country has a better right to our dollars then those who break our laws and bring them to this country. Now, the argument has been how can we turn them out on the streets without being able to get a job? We can take an illegal child all the way from kindergarten through high school and graduate from high school and they cannot legally get a job in this country, so we should not use the argument that they need a job. I have an end to the idea that this bill is antieducation. That is the most spurious of all arguments.”