Save Sba From Sanctuary Cities Act of 2025
Floor Speech
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Mr. CORREA. Mr. Speaker, first of all, let me begin by thanking the chair and the ranking member for their interest in good, managed, efficient SBA offices. They are Federal taxpayer dollars being invested to make sure that we continue to create jobs in our great country.
That being in mind, I would ask everybody to think about return on investment to taxpayers. Orange County, California, my home, today is probably the 30th largest economy in the world. It is home to Disneyland and the Anaheim Angels, and is probably the 30th largest economy in the world.
California, which always gets beat up here in this body, just became the fourth largest economy in the world. Let me say: We are the fourth largest economy in the world.
Guess what? As California taxpayers, we pay the Federal Government $100 billion more in Federal tax dollars than we get back from the Federal Government. I would say, as an economy, we are doing pretty good. We need the workers. We need workers.
California has the biggest agricultural sector in the United States. We feed ourselves and other States in the Union and other nations, and 70 percent of our workforce is--guess what?--undocumented.
We are waiting for this body to pass immigration reform so good, hardworking individuals can be legalized.
We have the biggest manufacturing sector in the United States. It is not Pittsburgh or Michigan. California, southern Cal, is the biggest manufacturing sector in the United States. Guess who most of those workers are? Undocumented. They also pay Federal taxes.
Let's evaluate the SBA not on rhetoric but on how many jobs an SBA office creates. What is that return on investment?
I am not sure why we are doing this today. We all know that there are millions and millions of undocumented workers in this country. Absolutely, we don't want criminals, hardened criminals, in our district. I don't want them as my neighbors.
If they are hardworking, honest individuals, taxpayers, what is wrong with giving them the opportunity to be American, to pursue that American Dream, and to be legalized? That is what America is all about.
I ask my colleagues to strongly consider their ``yes'' vote and please vote ``no.'' We are talking about Federal dollars, taxpayer dollars.
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