The effect of these regulations. however. would have been to require the States to provide public assistance to aliens not lawfully admitted to this country. The magnitude of the problems these regulations would have created for States such as my own State of Texas cannot easily be assessed. To begin with. neither the State of Texas nor the Immigration and Naturalization Service really knows how many illegal aliens are actually in Texas. Nevertheless. it has been reliably estimated by State officials that possibly as many as 500.000 illegal aliens might be in Texas at any given point in time. Certainly. if the State were forced to expand its eligibility roles to this extent. a grave crisis would threaten the very integrity of its fiscal structure. More importantly. however. would be the effect such action would have in penalizing those families and lawful residents of the State of Texas who are deserving of public assistance.
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