Elton Gallegly Quotes

Hospitals are closing across the country due to the burden of illegal immigration, college students find that summer jobs have dried up due to illegal immigration, and wages across the board are depressed by the overwhelming influx of cheap and illegal labor.
Elton Gallegly

Country, Find, College

You took care of your horse, and your horse took care of you.
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Care, Horse, Took

Among other things, the Real ID Act sets minimum security criteria that states would have to meet to have their driver's licenses accepted as identification to board a commercial flight or enter federal facilities.
Elton Gallegly

Real, Act, Security

As a former mayor, I know that local governments must have control over land use decisions.
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Control, Decisions, Land

Congress has greatly tightened the loopholes terrorists can use to harm Americans. We need to do more. We need controls immediately on what forms of ID are adequate to board planes and enter secure sites.
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Congress, Harm, Secure

Consular cards are easily obtained with no proof of true identity and are easily forged.
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True, Identity, Cards

Consular cards were not designed to be identification and no treaty recognizes them as such. Legal travelers, visitors and long-term residents carried passports, visas or green cards for that purpose.
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Legal, Purpose, Green

Consular offices make no attempt to determine whether the person obtaining the card is legally in the United States. In fact, the only people who need these cards are illegal immigrants, criminals and terrorists. Consular cards also are easily forged.
Elton Gallegly

Person, Fact, Whether

Every unskilled illegal immigrant who enters the United States for work drives up healthcare costs for every American. And, every illegal immigrant we turn a blind eye toward weakens the rule of law our country is founded on.
Elton Gallegly

Work, Law, Country

Horsemeat in many European and Asian countries is consumed as a delicacy.
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Countries, Asian, Consumed

I have great respect for President Bush, Secretary Powell and Secretary Ridge.
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Great, Respect, President

In addition, California spends nearly $1 billion a year in Medi-Cal services for an average of 780,000 illegal immigrants a month, over and above emergency health services.
Elton Gallegly

Health, Year, Above

Instead, California is one of only 10 states that provides in-state college and university tuition to illegal immigrants. That's grossly unfair to a legal high school student who moves out of California for a year, then returns to attend college.
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Legal, School, College

It is our hope that in future discussions with the Mexican government, you will encourage Mexico to do its part to address illegal immigration rather than encourage their citizens to illegally enter the U.S.
Elton Gallegly

Hope, Government, Future

It's been argued that of all the animals humans have domesticated, the horse is the most important to our history. For thousands of years, horses were our most reliable mode of transportation.
Elton Gallegly

History, Important, Horse

More than 65,000 horses were slaughtered in the United States in 2004, a 50 percent increase since 2002.
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Since, United, Percent

President Reagan achieved such successes because when you sat in a room with him, there could be over 1,000 people in the room, yet you felt like there was only the two of you, and his wonderful wit would put you at ease. That was a tremendous gift.
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President Reagan is now at rest. We mourn his passing, but we are grateful for the gifts he gave us: a safer world, strong economic base, and a renewed belief in America's greatness.
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Strong, America, Grateful

Since achieving their independence in 1992, the people of Croatia have built a democratic society based on the rule of law, respect for human rights, and a free market economy.
Elton Gallegly

Respect, Society, Human

The fifth amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees that no private property shall be taken for a public use without the payment of just compensation.
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Public, Taken, Shall

We are a nation of immigrants, but we are also a nation of laws.
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Nation, Laws, Immigrants

While a strong presence on our southern border is imperative, the border cannot be secured unless we enforce our internal laws and stop ignoring the open complicity of U.S. companies and foreign nations to promote illegal activities.
Elton Gallegly

Strong, Cannot, While

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Nationality: American

Type: Politician

Born: March 7, 1944

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