We did make a commitment to the States and local governments that were going to be impacted by the legalization program. We are talking about English language education. talking about emergency health care costs. talking about public assistance kinds of programs. the critical programs to deal with the 1.8 million people who came forward on the regular legalization. well over 1 million who came forward on the seasonal agricultural worker program. I cannot tell you how much I appreciate. and I think my colleagues in California and a number of the other impacted States. appreciate the fact that this conference report remains true to that commitment. reappropriates those funds for fiscal year 1992 for the purposes originally intended by the Immigration Reform and Control Act. and to ask my colleagues who are from those States to recall what the Senate did this past time. what the other House did in this particular appropriation. and will undoubtedly come back in fiscal 1991. and we should be wary and eternally vigilant because there will be other pressures to try to take these funds as well. Mr. Speaker.
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