Mr. President. I am very pleased to join with the Senator from Texas in offering this amendment to increase bilingual educational funds by $15 million. * In my home State of Florida the need to provide adequate funding for a project of this type is extremely important. not only for the established Spanishspeaking communities. but also to effectively communicate with the many thousands of refugees that have arrived from Cuba over the past few.years. and the migrants who come to harvest the crops. These people depend on our educational system to meet their needs. and if we fall them by not even being able to communicate with them in their native language. then we will have failed to bring them in the American community. We cannot afford to let this happen.
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