in support of this amendment which would appropriate the $100 million to be available only for use as the President may determine. As he said. this was sent up yesterday to the Senate by the President. so it is part of our budget. Specifically. these funds are critical to the current efforts to resettle the hundreds of thousands of Cuban and Haitian refugees who have so recently inundated our shores in Florida and been moved around throughout the country. This not only helps Florida. it will help Arkansas or any other States of the Union. They are not yet classified either refugees or persons of asylum. They are ineligible for Federal benefits. and subsequently the burden of both processing and maintaining the immigrants has fallen unfairly on both the local and the State governments and the private organizations. Mr. Chairman. these funds will fill the gap between the already exhausted State resources and the forthcoming Federal funding should the persons be eventually classified.
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