Chairman. I rise in opposition to this amendment. Targeted assistance is a crucial program. one designed to relieve the extreme strain placed on local entities by the heavy impact due to the initial placement and secondary migration of refugees. These local entities must struggle mightily to serve both their regular population and the new refugees who have heavily impacted the local area. Targeted assistance funds remain critically necessary to provide relief to those local areas which have been highly impacted by a disproportionate refugee resettlement pattern. Refugee maldistribution has hindered the achievement of selfsufficiency in many cases and put an additional strain on other services. Secondary migration has been a major aspect of refugee resettlement. As people who did not adjust elsewhere and who are not selfsufficient. these secondary migrants have been difficult to assimilate. In California. most had less than an eighth grade education and no English. many were illiterate farmers. Yet. targeted assistance has proven successful.
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Generalization that secondary migrants are difficult to assimilate, have low education, and no English skills.