Mr. Speaker. a Federal judge has now ordered that HIVpositive Haitian immigrants be released from Cuba. and they are being brought here. No other country would take them. The Miami Herald reported Friday that "workers will immediately plug the Haitians into a wide network of agencies that provide cash. medical care. counseling. jobs. and other services." The paper said. that on average. it costs $100.000 to care for someone from the time he or she is infected with HIV until death. This is the cost just for the medical care. Week before last. an economist from Rice University presented a new study which shows that we spend at least $12.5 billion on the approximately 5 million illegal aliens here now. Even more significantly. the study found that there are 11.8 million legal immigrants here--noncitizenswho cost all levels of government $45 billion above the taxes they pay. In other words. we are spending at least $57.5 billion in tax money on noncitizens. I certainly sympathize with everyone who is living in another nation under very bad conditions. But the fact is that this is a tremendously growing problem.
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