Political Quotes

“They are not touched prospectively. Again, all these provisions I am explaining do apply and will apply to people who are in this country. So, for example, if you have a sponsored immigrant who is in this country receiving welfare benefits, maybe has been receiving them for 20 years, we suggest after 20 years, if you are not a citizen, if you are here receiving welfare benefits, which in many cases--and I was getting to the point with respect to sponsored immigrants, because what has been happening is that we have seen a chronic trend, and the Senator from New Mexico was on the floor yesterday with a chart that illustrates this, what happens with a lot of the sponsored immigrants-- and these people are in this country now--is that son and daughter are bringing over mom and dad, and mom and dad come into this country, they sign these documents, they have signed them already, but they are not legally enforceable, No. 1. No. 2, the welfare departments in the States do not know what the Immigration and Naturalization Service is doing. They do not talk to each other. There is no communication. So mom comes into the country. She is 70 years old. She goes down to the SSI office, and guess what? She is on SSI. By the way, when she qualifies for SSI, she qualifies for Medicaid. When she qualifies for SSI, she qualifies for food stamps, and she qualifies for a whole variety of other programs, all paid for by the taxpayer.”