Political Quotes

“Let me finish my point. I go back to the sponsorship agreement. What you are ignoring here is, you say, well, it is going to fall on the counties. Under what I described, under the system I described of SSI, for example, who should the burden fall on? Clearly, it should fall on the sponsor--not the county. Sponsors, when they bring people into this country--there is a certain economic criteria to be able to bring someone in with a sponsor. These people have in fact taken a walk. They have said, well, you know, let the Government pick up this cost. I do not want to pick up mom's cost. I want to buy my other Mercedes. Well, let us not buy another Mercedes. Let us pay for mom. What you are suggesting is that all these people who have three cars in their garage are going to let mom starve or put them on LA County's welfare rolls, which may not exist as you so eloquently state. I am saying that a lot of these people who sponsor people into this country are going to have to start footing the bill. That is what we are pushing here. You make the assumption that everybody who is on SSI is going to fall on to the county or the State. I do not make that assumption. I make the assumption that people who sign legal documents saying they were going to take care of people are going to now have to belly up. They are going to have to pay the bill.”