mr. rector. this big procedural matter tomorrow evening, which will clear of the way for the rest of the week, as you see the senate get ready for its own end game on immigration bill, what goes through your mind? i think it looks a lot like 1986. we gave amnesty to 3 million people and we promised we would secure the border and we promised we would make it unlawful to hire illegal immigrants. we granted amnesty, we granted access to benefits. the other part of the deal was never carried out and that is exactly what this is. you are granting amnesty. in exchange for that you're promising to build a chain-link fence at some point in the future. there is no money for that. all the things that are given away to the amnesty recipients, those are real because they're entitlements. there is no money here for a fence. they have to appropriate that money later. host: what you see in the senate bill? guest: i see a lot of good and a lot of bad. one of the good aspects is increasing lawful immigration goin

mr. rector. this big procedural matter tomorrow evening, which will clear of the way for the rest of the week, as you see the senate get ready for its own end game on immigration bill, what goes through your mind? i think it looks a lot like 1986. we gave amnesty to 3 million people and we promised we would secure the border and we promised we would make it unlawful to hire illegal immigrants. we granted amnesty, we granted access to benefits. deal was part of the never carried a route -- carried out and that is exactly what this is. you are granting amnesty. exchange for that you're promising to build a chain-link fence at some point in the future. there is no money for that. all the things that are given away to the amnesty recipients, those are real because entitlements. there is no money here for a fence. they have to appropriate that money later. host: what you see in the senate bill? guest: i see a lot of good and a lot of bad. one of the aspects is increasing lawful immigration going forwa

mr. rector just mentioned. let me just say one final point. mr. rector's study is riddled th methodical -- methodological errors. one error alone reverses his results. what his studies proves is that immigration reform would be a huge financial boon to the united states. exactly the opposite of what he thinks it proves. >> thank you to you all. i also want to thank becky and the bipartisan policy center for allowing me to moderate. i am going to open it up for q & a. there is a bill that just came out of the senate judiciary economy. it will go on the floor next month. i want you to talk about who has done this in the past well in terms of minimizing economic costs and maximizing economic benefits. is there anything to be learned by policymakers engaged in this debate from that experience that e can look at and apply? >> i would say when you look around the globe, policymakers are saying each model is highly redistributive. in those economies, the government is going to redistribute from the better educated to the less educated. there is no moral f

mr. speaker, because it wasn't out and it wasn't released. and i got a verbal preview of that when robert rector came to speak before the conservative opportunities society which i have chaired for some years, and i knew that they hasn't read the report because it wasn't released -- hadn't read the report because it hasn't been released. i've read every page of the rector report, i believe it's 102 pages. there's a five-page executive summary. this report boils down to this, mr. speaker. that if you pass the senate gang of eight's comprehensive immigration reform/amnesty act, the net cost of the people who would be legalized in america, even if you use the 11.3 million which i think is a very low estimate, the net cost to the taxpayer when you calculate the drawdown from the welfare systems and the health care and the education and the infrastructure, he's got it all broken down in detail, the net cost, and then you subtract from that the net tax contributions made by this group of people, you end up with a $6.3 trillion price tag to the senate's amnesty bill. $6.3 trillion. and still republican