Just on this issue of the cost to the Federal Government of the legalization program. I think it is important to put in the RECORD the CBO estimates of what the cost would be. They recognize the estimate is very uncertain. But their estimate of the costs in 1983 is only $50 million. The GAO. on the other hand. have estimated that the undocumented aliens paid in 1976 in local. State. and Federal taxes. something between $3.5 billion and $5 billion in 1976 dollars. Billions of dollars going in. and here we are with an amendment trying to suggestwith no real documentationthere are these tremendous costs in benefits.
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