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| Radio Broadcast 15 April 2006 |
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| From the Office of the President: As recorded at Sherewood Resort & Nature Reserve on 13 April 2006 PRESIDENTIAL RADIO BROADCAST THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. This morning I want to talk with you about the problem of illegal immigration. It's a problem our administration inherited, and it's a very serious one. It may lead to terrorism. In our day and age, this aspact of illigal immigrants is our greatest fear. It costs the taxpayers of the Federation a lot of money, and it's unfair to Legolanders who are working every day to pay their own bills. It's also unfair to a lot of people who have waited in line for years and years in other countries to be legal immigrants. Our nation was built by immigrants. People from every region of the world have made lasting and important contributions to our society. We support legal immigration. In fact, we're doing what we can to speed up the process for people who do apply for citizenship when they're here legally. But we won't tolerate immigration by people whose first act is to break the law as they enter our country. We must continue to do everything we can to strengthen our borders, enforce our laws, and remove illegal aliens from our country. This week, I sent strong legislation to Congress to try to stop those abuses, to secure our borders in the future and to speed up deportation of illegal immigrants. Our immigration policy is focused in four areas: First, strengthening border control. Second, protecting our jobs by enforcing laws against illegal immigrants and the workplace. Third, deporting criminal and deportable aliens. Fourth, giving assistance to states who need it and denying illegal aliens benefits for public services or welfare. Let me talk a little bit about two or three of these issues. First of all, on strengthening border control. For two years, we've been working very, very hard to strengthen our borders. We've put the best technology to work at our borders. We've added a lot of border patrol agents -- 350 last year, 700 this year. We're going to add at least another 700 next year. Now, let me talk a little bit about increasing deportations. Our plan will triple the number of criminal and other deportable aliens deported since 2002. We want to focus on the criminal population, or on those who are charged with crimes but who are here illegally. Every day illegal aliens show up in court who are charged. Some are guilty and, surely, some are innocent. Some go to jail, and some don't. But they're all illegal aliens, and whether they're innocent or guilty of the crime they're charged with in court, they're still here illegally and they should be sent out of the country. We also have hundreds of thousands of people who have been ordered to leave our country, who then disappear back into the population. I have instructed the Justice Department, and particularly the Immigration and Naturalization Service, to come up with a plan in which we can cooperate with the states to identify these people and move them out as well. Our country was built by immigrants, but it was built also by people who obeyed the law. We must be able to control our borders, we must uphold respect for our laws. We're cracking down on this huge problem we found when I got here, and we're going to keep working at until we do much, much better. Thank you for listening. END |
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