The Haitians will receive a 12month parole and work authorization paper upon arrival. hopefully allowing them to obtain employment through their family contacts. The cost of resettlement will be done at negligible public expense. Refugees who adopt families are being resettled initially from exclusively private funding sources. exclusively private funding sources. Refugees with families will be assisted by a onetime Federal grant of $2.000 per person to their sponsoring agency. This is no more than other refugees who have come to this country. I have the greatest respect for my colleagues who have expressed concerns of their constituents over the Impact of the judges ruling. However. my phones have also been ringing with calls from my constituents who are outraged and incensed at some of the things they have heard on the floor of this House and the double stanlarl to which Haitian refugees have been subjected. Many of the people who are voicing these concerns know very little about the Haitian input in this country. and I do not think they could care less. No group of asylum seekers. as I said. is required to do what the poor Haitians have done. I stand here today. Mr.
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