Speech #960270705

I am convinced that the bulk of the Cubans and Haitians will return to Florida since they tend to identify themselves with Florida. However. they do migrate to other parts of the country. In southern California. which I represent. we already are caring for about 100.000 of the refugees who have entered the United States from Southeast Asia. Today we are beginning to receive a rapidly increasing flow of new illegal aliens from Cuba. Within Los Angeles County alone. 2.536 of these new illegal aliens had applied for welfare as of Thursday. June 26. 1980. and that number is increasing at the rate of about 100 applicants for welfare each day. Since that number is only those who have applied for welfare. it is reasonable to believe that the number who have moved to Los Angeles County is at least twice that number. Again. I urge our administration to reconsider its policies toward this illegal immigration. that it enforce our laws relating to immigration strictly. and that it do what it can to stop the flow of illegal immigrants to our shores and that it sponsor legislation to shift the burden of caring for these illegal immigrants from the local taxpayers to the Federal tax roles.