Chairman. we have large amounts of sums in that original appropriation that not only have not been spent. but are being held back from the States. Second. the whole logic of the SLIAG program was to cover the education and health benefits of the people in the legalization program. The massive part of this bill deals with legal immigration. We must stop sliding from the costs that many people believe come with illegal immigration. and applying that to the legal immigration system. Study after study shows that those are not people who go on welfare. they are not people who rely on county and public hospitals. They are people with family support. job support. They work. They produce taxes. The small number of people that will be affected by the family fairness program are people who are here. who are being given a work authorization in the stay of deportation. They are not required to study the English language like the people in the legalization program. The various provisions that required SLIAG funding and Justified it back in 1986 do not apply in this situation.
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Legal immigrants are not people who go on welfare or rely on public hospitals; they have family and job support, work, and pay taxes.