Speech #970224422

But should we not say at some stage: "Look. if we are going to allow these Poles to come in. we may have to take a look at the other people we are allowing to come in?" We may have to say that some will have to wait for another year. It is interesting to hear the Senator from Minnesota talk. and I know how strongly he feels about this. But he may be speaking in the abstract when he says that there are no problems of immigration in this country. that we can take these scores of thousands who come in and look at them only as so many per thousand. Tell that to somebody in my State. Tell that to somebody in my State. Tell them that there is no problem. when 6 of Floridas cities are among the top 10 in the Nation in terms of crime rates. and when Miami has become the murder capital of the world. To Florida. immigration is not abstract because we have been deluged by refugees. we have been deluged by immigrants. What we in Florida are saying is that we want to do our share. Every day we come up here. and we try to get some money to see that we pay back the State and local government for their costs. Every day we fight all the way through Congress. and we fight the administration. The administration cut payback for immigrant costs from 36 months to 18. and we are fighting every day. Our hospitals are full. We do not know what to do.