KING SURVEYS IMPACT OF ILLEGAL
IMMIGRATION FIRSTHAND AT SAN DIEGO
BORDER HEARING
WASHINGTON - Iowa Congressman Steve
King, a Member of the House
Judiciary Committee, attended the
Judiciary Committee's first field
immigration hearing Wednesday and
surveyed "Smuggler's Gulch" along
the San Diego/ Tijuana border.
The
hearing was about the impact of
illegal immigration on U.S.
taxpayers. The majority of illegals
have less than a high school
education, and take out more in
social services than what they pay
in taxes. The Committee also found
that the Senate's Reid-Kennedy
amnesty plan would substantially
burden education, health care, law
enforcement and federal government
assistance programs.
"I
watched a sector of the border that
falls prey to trafficking and
illegal trespass," said King. "The
witnesses told us firsthand of the
financial burden that illegal
immigration puts on their
communities. They also told us how
amnesty would make this bad
situation worse. Every Member of
Congress should see and hear this
before charting immigration policy."
The
witnesses who testified to the
Committee included an LA. County
Supervisor, Hon. Michael D.
Antonovich, Chief Financial Officer
for the University Medical Center in
Tucson, Arizona, Mr. Kevin J. Burns,
government social services scholar,
Mr. Robert Rector, Los Angeles
County Sheriff, Mr. Leroy Baca, and
professor from the University of
California, San Deigo, Wayne
Cornelius.
The
U.S. House is bringing the
immigration reform debate out of
Washington and to the American
people through a series of
immigration reform field hearings
held across the country. Various
House Committees, including the
Education and Reform, Homeland
Security, International Relations
and Judiciary Committees are holding
the hearings. King serves on the
House Judiciary Committee,
Immigration Subcommittee, which
oversees immigration law and the
Immigration Reform Caucus. The
Judiciary Committee will convene an
immigration hearing in Dubuque, Iowa
on September 1st.
