"The public service they use ..."

Ein Zitat aus einer ZEIT-Kehlmann-Diskussion:

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BLUES MAN #24 — vor 10 Monaten

Legt man Kehlmanns Messlatte an, könnte Bill Clinton heute an keiner Uni mehr eine Rede halten. Und ja, er sprach von Aliens im Zusammenhang mit Migranten

"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,” Mr. Clinton said. “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,” he said. “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.

“We are a nation of immigrants,” Mr. Clinton said. “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.”

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Kannte ich nicht, diese Clinton-Rede. Kenn ich jetzt.