We get about $16 million of the targeted $50 million. Specifically. this would mean $16 million for each of 1980 and 1987. $6 million for schools. And by the way. if I may insert. we have had to build many new school facilities in order to provide for the children of these refugees and. of course. we have had to make the other expansions in our school system to accommodate them. He says: Six million dollars for schools. $5 million for health. $2 million for a criminal Justice program and $1 million for day care services. This is consistent with the version of the Refugee Assistance Extension Act of Now. in respect to the Mariel lift in 1980. we remember to our shame. to a great degree. we allowed Castro to force in upon our country people that he took out of the jails and prisons of his nation: some were criminals. hardened criminals. many others with mental defects and he sent them over with the other Cubans that were coming over to join their families during that airlift. Now. this is what Mr. Batten said about those people: In 1984. these individuals. about 1 percent of our countys population. accounted for 10 percent of the felony bookings and 22 percent of the misdemeanor bookings in the county and 50 percent of those mentally incompetent to stand trial.
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Generalizing that a significant portion of Cuban refugees from the Mariel boatlift were criminals or mentally defective.