Political Quotes

“this is a powerfully bad program that should not be enacted. I find it ironic that we are hearing for the last 2 days how terrible it is that we have all these people coming into our country, we do not want these people in our country, we do not want these people who cannot pass an English test to come to our country. But we do want them if they will be cheap labor, we do want them if it is going to be easy for us to send them home like they are widgets at the end of a period of time. Mr. Chairman, that is not how this country should act. That is not how this country should operate. Let us look at the people who are going to be coming to work in this program. These are people who are coming here for a better life. They would not be coming here if they were not doing better economically, and the proponents of this program are saying at the end of this time they are just going to go home. Well, Mr. Chairman, I do not think they are just going to go home because they came here to have a better life, and then we are going to have more problems with more people in prison, we are going to have more problems with more people on welfare because they are still going to have a better life, even if they are living in the underground in the United States, many times, than in their old communities.”