They have chosen to do it and their State legislatures have authorized it. They have moved forward. I think that is great. I am very pleased with that. We know what it does. The Senator has described it well. It allows the State public assistance programs and administering agencies to do a computer search of an aliens immigration status before granting that alien public assistance benefits. It relies on computerized access to the INS records. I can tell you that those records were in disarray before Commissioner Alan Nelson came to the fore. and now the INS is becoming very adept at computer access. computerized records.
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