Speech #960270720

My home city and State of New York count losses in the hundreds of millions in terms of nonreimbursed expenditures for the health and welfare of illegals. Our Governor. Hugh Carey. has recommended that those illegal aliens already here be granted legal status and the Federal Government provide reimbursements for expenses already incurred. What is being proposed here today cannot be considered extravagant when one considers the costeffective nature of the return on the expenditure. The border patrol just in California and Texas apprehended 918.00 illegals in 1979. This translates into roughly 2.500 every day. They did this with hardly an increase in their resources. It is a testimonial to hard work and should serve as an incentive to pass either of these amendments to increase their manpower. I urge this bodys approval of increased resources for our border patrol. Projections in the future point to large growth in the Latin American nationsthe socalled source nations from where illegals come. We must apply the old adage. the best defense is a good offense let us make enforcement of our borders a primary budgetary priority.0 ] 1730