Speech #960267388

This has required detailing PHS medical staff. hiring local medical staff and purchasing medical supplies. Of the $36 million. $6 million is set aside for establishing or expanding community health centers in areas with large concentrations of low income arrivals. Since we know that refugees tend to settle in certain areas which mostly lack accessible health services. it is more economical to establish community clinics than to have them come to municipal hospitals and pay for high cost care under medicaid. The committee provided $12 million of the $14.2 million requested to reimburse the Immigration and Naturalization Service for the extra expenses it has incurred for overtime. travel. per dtems. detention of persons and equipment. Responding to the crisis dsruptod the regular workings of the INS. and failure to reimburse it would seriously impair its normal operations. Since we face a continued possibilty of renewed flow of refugees from various parts of the world. it is important to restore the INS to a full level of operational capacity. The sixth part of the supplemental approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee is $39 million for the State Departments Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund. It needs to be clarified that these funds are only to cover processing. transportation. reception and resettlement costs of the Cuban and Haitian arrivals. They are not to be used for the ongoing welfare and medicaid program costs of the arrivals after they are settled in one or another State.