let me turn now to the representativef -- representative of hazeltown. house education and workforce committee people when you left the mayorality lived in your area? >> approximately 30,000 at the time. it was estimated to be about 30,000 at the time during the court case. it was estimated about 10% of the pup -- population -- was there illegally. if i could make a point. it is important because i know it comes up often. we are standing up against illegal immigration and that is not anti-immigrant. our city is 49% hispanic. i took probably at the time one of the strongest stances against illegal immigration and won with 90% of the vote. our hispanic population has grown every year from the time we passed the ordinance which defies the theory that hispanics would not come to hazelton. in fact they wanted to come and move their families there. so i think it is important, it sounds good but it isn't the reality of what happens. >> well, sir the reason that i ask you is that you went in to depth, sort of not are any rhetoric about the flip side of immigrati

year from the time we passed the ordinance which defies the theory that hispanics would not come to hazeltown, in fact they wanted to move their families there. so i think it's important. it sounds good but it's not the reality of what happened. >> the reason that i ask you is you went -- well, went sort of into depth not with any rhetoric about the flip side of immigration and having dealt with it from the stand point of a mayorty where you had a substantial influx of people who were not here legally and were not being productive as far as taxes coming in and services needed to be rendered. i just want you to understand that you don't have to come from a small town to know that flip side. i come from broward county. i can't begin to believe that there are too many congressional districts in this country that have as many persons who share the spanish language as the congressional district that myself and eliana ross leighton. and quite frankly i think i have more diverse group because i'm not limited to any one segment. i have a school that has 53 ludges in that school. -- lunls in that scho