President. it is Federal policy that has caused the need for this assistance in these border communities. Last year. Federal immigration policy admitted 187.000 legal aliens from the Western Hemisphere. 44.000 of them from the Republic of Mexico. Many of these legally admitted Mexican immigrants tend to settle in southwest border communities. which have traditionally been among the poorest -and least advantaged regions of this country. In Texas border counties. for example. the average personal income is only about 60 percent of the national average while unemployment is generally twice the national figure. These same counties are being asked to absorb a legal alien population in their public school systems that averages almost 10 percent of total student enrollment. and nearly 30 percent in some school districts.
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