It is also estimated that over one million transient illegal aliens are here at any given time. These estimates would be much higher if we had not given amnesty to nearly three million illegal aliens in 1986, allowing them to become legal members of our society. Illegal aliens make a mockery of those who respect our laws and our country's sovereignty by waiting for a chance to immigrate. Moreover, the cheap labor that illegal immigration provides depresses the wages and working conditions of the working poor. Under a legal device invented by the courts, many illegals aliens are allowed to receive welfare without fear of deportation.
Legal immigrants are three times more numerous as the illegal ones.