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Bill
Clinton
All Americans, not only
in the States most heavily affected but in every place in this country, are
rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country.
The jobs they hold might otherwise be held by
citizens or legal immigrants. The public service they use impose burdens on our
taxpayers. That's why our administration has moved aggressively to secure our
borders more by hiring a record number of new border guards, by deporting twice
as many criminal aliens as ever before, by cracking down on illegal hiring, by
barring welfare benefits to illegal aliens.
In the budget I will
present to you, we will try to do more to speed the deportation of illegal
aliens who are arrested for crimes, to better identify illegal aliens in the
workplace as recommended by the commission headed by former Congresswoman
Barbara Jordan.
We are a nation of
immigrants. But we are also a nation of laws. It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating
for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws
we have seen in recent years, and we must do more to stop it.
George H. W. Bush and Ronald Reagan answer a question from the audience about illegal immigration at a primary debate sponsored by the League of Woman voters and moderated by Howard K Smith in 1980. You Tube
